About Rickey
Rickey McGregor is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He also supports those facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, depression, trauma, and anger. His approach is practical and respectful, aimed at helping people take small, doable steps forward.
Rickey leans on tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to structure sessions. He works with each person to set clear goals and to choose techniques that fit their life.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on skills you can use between meetings. Over 13 years in practice, Rickey has helped people with a wide range of concerns. He offers support for issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, and commitment worries.
He also addresses communication problems, grief, guilt, and struggles tied to major life changes. Sessions are tailored to the individual. Rickey listens for patterns that keep people stuck and then helps try alternative ways of thinking and interacting.
He encourages steady progress through practical exercises, role-play, and focused reflection. People seeking help can expect a calm, goal-oriented process. Rickey aims to empower clients to make changes that feel sustainable.
He frames therapy as a collaborative effort toward better coping, clearer relationships, and greater confidence.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rickey uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT often involves practical exercises, thought records, and behavioral tasks that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.He also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift emotional responses that affect their close relationships. EFT focuses on identifying feelings, expressing needs, and building stronger emotional bonds where relevant to the client's goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rickey will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands to choose methods that fit each person. Decisions about techniques are made collaboratively and adjusted as progress is seen.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give practical flexibility for people balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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