About Richard
Richard "Rick" Frisby is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. He practices in Arizona and offers practical support for trauma and self-esteem concerns. Rick focuses on straightforward, manageable steps people can use right away.
Rick keeps sessions grounded and conversational. He listens for what matters most and helps clients set small goals. He often works with people facing panic, social anxiety, isolation, or challenges after separation and loss.
Background and approach
His style centers on understanding each person's story and preferences. He honors spiritual perspectives when they matter to the client. The aim is to build coping skills, reduce distress, and increase daily functioning.
Over four years of practice, Rick has supported people dealing with addiction, chronic pain or illness, attachment and abandonment issues, and the effects of trauma and dissociation. He also addresses concerns related to adoption and foster care, aging, and eating or mood disorders. Sessions include talking through patterns, trying new ways to respond, and practicing tools between meetings.
Rick uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to individual needs. He helps people take manageable steps toward feeling steadier and more in control.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy works
Two evidence-based approaches Rick uses are skill-building techniques and trauma-focused work. Skill-building techniques teach specific strategies for managing anxiety, panic, and daily stressors, such as breathing, grounding, and structured problem solving. Trauma-focused work helps people process difficult memories and reduce their impact on current life by working at a comfortable pace and developing coping skills first.A second common approach is mood and behavior-focused work that targets depression and low motivation. This involves identifying unhelpful patterns, trying different responses, and scheduling small activities that can lift mood and increase energy. These methods are practical and geared toward everyday life changes rather than abstract theory.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. The process is shared so clients can notice what helps and what doesn’t, then refine the plan together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be a shorter check-in option or fit into a busy day without scheduling a long call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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