About Russell
Russell Goodwin is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with ten years of experience. He focuses on practical steps that move people forward rather than dwelling on problems. He helps with anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes using goal-focused work that fits each person.
He favors a collaborative style. Sessions look at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and then identify small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Russell helps people clarify priorities and build momentum toward change. His background includes a decade of counseling adults through transitions, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship or family struggles. The LCMHC credential means he holds a clinical counseling license in North Carolina.
Russell draws on several practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies and acceptance-based methods to help people manage anxiety and shift unhelpful patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques guide quick goal-setting and sustain motivation. Sessions are designed to fit busy schedules and real life.
He emphasizes clear goals, homework that feels doable, and checking progress each meeting. The aim is steady, visible progress rather than long lists of tasks. People looking for straightforward, goal-oriented counseling often find this approach helpful.
Russell aims to create a clear plan so clients leave sessions with next steps they can try before the next meeting.
How approaches like CBT and ACT work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a more meaningful life, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses clear exercises and practice tasks to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, often helping with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit those needs. They will collaborate to pick techniques and adjust them as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings or busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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