About Ricki
Ricki Pribyl is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and mood concerns. She supports those facing career challenges, addictions, and the emotional effects of illness. Ricki works to make it easier to speak about hard things and to take the first step toward change.
She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can share thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Ricki listens closely and helps clients set realistic, manageable goals. Her work draws on eight years of professional experience in Minnesota as a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. That background includes helping people cope with major life shifts, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those dealing with codependency and control issues. Ricki addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and social anxiety. She also offers coaching-style support for self-love, forgiveness, and rebuilding after loss.
Sessions are aimed at helping people find tools that fit their daily life. Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer-term work, depending on the person. Ricki offers phone sessions, video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to match each person’s goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Ricki uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional coping. One approach emphasizes learning concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step strategies to manage overwhelming moments. Another approach centers on mood and grief work, helping people name emotions, track patterns, and build routines that support steadier mood over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ricki collaborates with each person to identify goals and tries methods that match those goals and personal preferences. Over time she adjusts techniques based on what helps the person make progress and feel more in control.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow a full conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates or coaching-style support into a day. These options help people maintain continuity of care and access help from wherever they are in Minnesota.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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