About Ricky
Ricky Lomax is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. He practices in Missouri and offers straightforward, practical support for common and complex concerns. Sessions are aimed at helping people feel more steady and able to handle everyday pressures.
Ricky focuses on clear, simple skills people can use between appointments. He uses conversation to identify what matters most to each person and then builds small, realistic steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how past hurts, attachment issues, and trauma shape current reactions and relationships. Many people come for help with parenting strain, intimacy and communication problems, or the emotional fallout of chronic illness and major life changes. He also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family challenges.
Ricky listens for patterns that keep people stuck and offers ways to shift them. His sessions combine practical problem solving with acceptance-based work and trauma-focused care when needed. He teaches emotional regulation skills and cognitive techniques to reduce overwhelming thoughts.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Ricky takes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance. He encourages clients to name values and take actions that match those values.
Over time people often report improved communication, clearer boundaries, and a greater sense of control over mood and behavior.
How his approaches work online
Ricky draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify personal values and take small, meaningful steps even when difficult thoughts are present. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where moving toward what matters matters more than eliminating every uncomfortable feeling.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical for reducing anxious or depressive symptoms by teaching concrete skills for managing thoughts and reactions. When trauma is central, he applies trauma-focused techniques to process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods as the work progresses. Clients are encouraged to try strategies and give feedback so the plan can shift as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone work can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging or live chat can fit tight schedules and provide regular check-ins between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for different routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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