About Richard
Richard Whitton is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of professional experience in Florida. He focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, or managing mood and addiction concerns. He emphasizes strengths and practical steps so people feel less overwhelmed and more able to move forward.
He listens with curiosity and helps people name what is causing the most trouble. Sessions are straightforward and task-focused when needed. He uses clear tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and address addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Richard blends short-term problem solving with attention to relationships and patterns from the past. That mix helps people change habits and improve day-to-day functioning. He also works with grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and issues like guilt, shame, and self-esteem.
Sessions use a mix of approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based techniques, along with mindfulness and motivational methods. Richard helps people try small experiments between sessions to build confidence and new routines. He aims to make the process collaborative.
People set goals together and track practical progress. The result is a plainspoken, steady approach that focuses on relief and real-life changes.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice repeating relationship habits and develop new ways of connecting that reduce anxiety and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete behavioral changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and social fears. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus, which can help with stress, anger, and sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick and adjust methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and shifting course when something does not fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper conversation; phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed; live chat and text messaging allow quick updates or ongoing support between appointments. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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