About Richard
Richard Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with four years of clinical work. He focuses on everyday stresses and anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. He aims to make the first step easier for people who feel unsure about starting therapy.
He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and emotions. Sessions are built around clear, practical conversation and steady support.
Background and approach
He encourages honest reflection while helping people decide what matters most to them. Richard uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on emotion-focused methods to repair relationship hurt.
Attachment ideas also guide work on long-standing relationship patterns and trust. He often helps people dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and issues tied to fatherhood or family of origin. He also addresses process addictions and sex-related concerns alongside post-traumatic stress and compassion fatigue.
His style aims for steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients can be seen.
Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for both client and therapist.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small committed steps toward them despite anxiety or difficult feelings. It is useful for stress, life transitions, and when anxiety keeps someone from living in line with their goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills to change behaviors. It often helps people reduce anxious thinking and develop clearer routines and coping strategies.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness. It can guide work on communication problems, fatherhood issues, and repairing relationship wounds.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial expressions and body language, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat supports real-time written conversation, and text messaging is useful for short check-ins or when writing helps process emotions. These options make scheduling easier and allow people to pick the format that best fits their day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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