About Richard
Richard Robinson is a licensed mental health counselor with seven years of clinical experience in New York. He focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship strain. He aims to create a calm, focused space where people can talk about what matters and start making small changes.
He works with issues like trauma, grief, intimacy-related struggles, and stress. He also addresses ADHD, communication problems, codependency, and challenges that come with chronic pain or illness.
Background and approach
His work includes attention to less common concerns such as BDSM and alternative sex culture, abandonment, and attachment issues. Richard favors clear, goal-oriented methods. He uses client-centered listening alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools.
Conversations tend to include practical strategies people can try between sessions and steps to manage intense emotions as they arise. Sessions often focus on improving how someone communicates, setting boundaries, and reducing patterns that cause repeated distress. He also supports people facing life transitions, separation, or the long work of rebuilding after loss or trauma.
The tone is collaborative and straightforward. People meet him for short-term work like solution-focused planning and longer-term work aimed at deeper change. Richard works in English and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Richard blends client-centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people handle anxiety, relationship patterns, and emotional ups and downs. Client-centered work focuses on understanding the person’s perspective and building trust so they feel heard. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking. DBT offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions, improving relationships, and managing stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Richard will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences, and he adjusts plans as progress is made. This helps keep therapy practical and focused on what the person needs now.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and moments of need. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short prompts or ongoing check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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