About Richard
Richard Gibbons is a licensed mental health counselor with 24 years of professional experience in Florida. He focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, anger, and depression. He aims to meet people where they are and start with small, doable steps.
He follows a person-centered style that emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Conversations are shaped around each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Richard adapts sessions to match a client's situation and goals so work feels relevant and realistic. In sessions he blends approaches that look at thoughts and behaviors, values and action, and short-term solutions. This can mean learning new ways to respond to stress, practicing concrete skills to manage mood, or setting short goals to build steady progress.
The focus is on what can help day to day. He also addresses broader life strains such as family problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and relationship concerns. Richard helps people talk through grief, changes in life direction, and challenges tied to self-worth and purpose.
Starting is treated as a collaborative step. He works with each person to set clear, manageable goals and to track small gains over time. His practice is practical, patient, and aimed at helping people feel more in control of daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Richard often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in his work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action in line with those values, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes. CBT targets unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete tools to reduce symptoms like low mood, worry, or sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss goals, try methods that fit a client's needs, and adjust strategies over time. That collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most useful and practical for everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, homework, or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep therapy consistent across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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