About Richard
Richard Goggin is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with 30 years of experience. He focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and ADHD. He also helps people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and life transitions.
He uses clear, down-to-earth conversation during sessions. He draws on many roles from his past work, including time as a hospital chaplain and a high school coach, to offer steady support and practical guidance.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and aimed at what matters most to each person. Richard blends several approaches to match a person’s needs. He listens in a client-centered way, helps people spot and shift unhelpful thinking with cognitive behavioral techniques, and brings in mindfulness to calm stress.
Motivational interviewing and existential ideas are also woven in when they fit the work. In practice he focuses on what a person can do between sessions. That may include short exercises, new routines, or communication skills to try at home or work.
He pays attention to how everyday habits affect mood, energy, and relationships. People often come for help with big changes, chronic worries, or repeated patterns that sap energy. Richard aims to create a space where clients can sort what matters, try small changes, and build tools that support a better day-to-day life.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person says. It helps people feel heard and prioritize the goals that matter most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete strategies to change them. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging allow shorter, timely exchanges and brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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