About Richard
Richard Goggin is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. He writes plainly and listens closely to understand the real problems behind low mood, worry, or relationship strain. Sessions are practical and focused on steps someone can use between meetings.
He aims to make therapy understandable and usable for day-to-day life. He brings a varied background to the work. His time as a hospital chaplain gave him experience with grief, end-of-life concerns, and supporting people in crisis.
Background and approach
Years as a high school athletic coach shaped his direct, encouraging style and his focus on motivation and follow-through. In sessions he uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person. He also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Mindfulness and existential approaches help people face uncertainty and find meaning during change. People come to him for many concerns including relationships, parenting stress, career crossroads, addiction, trauma, chronic illness, and questions about identity. He also helps with anger, self-esteem, and coping when life shifts suddenly.
His style is steady, realistic, and focused on practical change. Therapy is offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
He practices in Massachusetts and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that fit online work and life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities. The therapist follows what the client brings and reflects it back in a calm, listening way to help people clarify what matters and what to try next. It helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem, and the stress of change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. The work often involves small experiments and practice outside sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, try methods together, and adjust the plan based on goals and what feels helpful. That shared approach makes it easier to keep trying new strategies until something fits.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, short coaching-style exchanges, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or health routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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