About Richard
Richard Goldin is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate life changes. His work also addresses addictions, depression, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles.
He draws mainly on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Sessions are practical and skills-focused, with attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing are woven in when helpful to build motivation and calm. Richard's path to counseling began after a career in business and education and a personal experience with depression during a business loss. That shift led him to study psychology and addiction counseling, and to change how he looks at setbacks.
He uses that personal perspective to help others see new possibilities when old patterns feel stuck. In sessions he works with concrete goals like managing panic, reducing substance use, improving communication, or coping with grief. He also supports people exploring sexual identity and alternative sexual cultures, and those dealing with aging and family of origin issues.
Therapy emphasizes values, small changes, and steady progress. He practices in Illinois and offers care in English. He accepts international clients and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Richard commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. DBT adds skills for regulating strong emotions and improving distress tolerance, which helps with impulsivity, anger, and relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean starting with CBT for thought patterns, adding mindfulness to build calm, or including DBT skills when emotions run high. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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