About Richard
Richard Folkes is a counsellor with three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. He offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions and related problems. He approaches each person with respect and works from the view that people know their own lives best.
Richard focuses on helping people identify strengths they already have. He listens first and asks clear questions to uncover what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Together they set straightforward goals and try out ways to manage symptoms day to day. His work draws on client-centred principles, so sessions are shaped around the person in front of him. He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviours.
For people affected by past harm, he uses trauma-focused methods to help process difficult memories at a careful pace. Sessions are practical and conversational. Richard offers tools people can use between meetings, such as simple coping techniques and homework tasks where relevant.
He aims to make therapy feel manageable, not overwhelming. Clients can expect a collaborative, non-judgemental space where progress is discussed in plain language. Richard holds the NCPS credential and works with adults in English.
He accepts international clients and supports people through life changes, grief, relationship strain and many common mental health concerns.
How Richard’s approaches work online
Richard uses client-centred principles online to make sessions feel focused on the person’s priorities. This approach means the counsellor listens actively, reflects what he hears, and helps people decide goals that matter to them. It works well for people who need a supportive space to talk through life changes and relationship or self-esteem concerns.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps people spot patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT online often includes simple exercises and short tasks between sessions to practise new ways of thinking and behaving. For people affected by trauma, he uses trauma-focused techniques that aim to process distressing memories gently and at a pace the person can manage.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Richard will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and adjust methods as therapy progresses. He works with each person to choose techniques that fit their situation rather than following one fixed method.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, reflection between meetings, and people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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