About Richard
Richard Henegar is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 40 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, anger, or depression. He aims to make the first step feel less daunting and meets people with respect and compassion.
He shapes sessions around what each person needs. That means practical conversations about day-to-day worries and step-by-step ways to try new coping skills.
Background and approach
He listens for what gets in the way of change and focuses on small, achievable shifts. Over four decades of work, he has supported people dealing with family tensions, blended family issues, and divorce or separation. He also addresses patterns like codependency, communication problems, impulsivity, and feelings of guilt or shame.
His experience includes responding to trauma, post-traumatic stress, and concerns linked to traumatic brain injury. Richard uses approaches that break problems into manageable parts and teach skills for grounding, emotion regulation, and clearer interaction. He draws on methods that target unhelpful thinking, build emotional awareness, and improve connection with others.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused rather than abstract. People come to him for help with panic attacks, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, dissociation, self-harm urges, and mood disorders. He also brings experience related to veteran and armed forces issues.
He works in English and practices in California as an LMFT.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Richard uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical changes in behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, obsessive thinking, and mood problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and building healthier ways to relate to strong feelings. DBT techniques can be useful for impulsivity, intense emotions, and improving coping skills.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, current struggles, and what methods feel most comfortable. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions give flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls are useful when face-to-face interaction helps learning and feedback. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing skills practice, quick questions, and steady contact between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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