About Richard
Richard Komm is an Arizona psychologist with 40 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, or who are dealing with relationship strain, grief, or mood changes. He aims to meet each person where they are and to make the first step feel manageable.
He treats concerns like trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood shifts, and parenting stress. He also works with issues such as obsessive thoughts and compulsions, panic attacks, phobias, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
Additional areas of attention include chronic pain or illness, aging and geriatric issues, and communication problems. His approach centers on respectful, sensitive, and compassionate dialogue. Sessions are shaped to each person’s needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
He listens for practical ways to reduce intense feelings and improve day-to-day coping. Over four decades of practice have led him to use evidence-based therapeutic techniques and straightforward problem-solving. He explains ideas plainly and helps people try tools between sessions.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Richard offers sessions in English and provides several online options. He encourages people to take the first step and complete the short matching questionnaire to begin scheduling.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Richard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach helps people learn specific coping skills for anxiety and panic - skills for breathing, tolerating discomfort, and stepping back from automatic reactions. Another approach concentrates on identifying and changing thought patterns that fuel depression, anxiety, or relationship conflict by practicing different ways of thinking and testing them in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those goals. Together they adjust the plan as progress is made and as needs change, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and scheduling allow. Phone sessions can be easier when a camera isn’t desired or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief written check-ins during a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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