About Richard
Richard King is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of practice in California. He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, and helps people talk through parenting and family concerns. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space so clients can share thoughts and feelings honestly.
He uses straightforward conversation to understand what’s causing day-to-day strain. Sessions often start with what feels most urgent - sleep, mood, parenting challenges, or work stress - and then build small, practical steps to improve routines and coping.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Richard draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address impulsivity, social anxiety, and communication problems. He supports caregivers who are feeling worn down and people dealing with isolation or low mood.
Sessions include strategies to manage overwhelming tasks and reduce repetitive worry. He prefers language that’s plain and direct so ideas are easy to use between meetings. People leave with specific actions to try during the week, then review what helped and what needs adjusting.
Over time those small changes can reduce conflict and increase emotional stability. Richard offers phone and video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible scheduling. He works in English and provides care to people located in California.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Richard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach centers on building better daily routines and behavioral strategies to reduce impulsivity and improve attention; this helps people who struggle with distractibility or find it hard to stay organized. Another approach focuses on cognitive tools to manage worry and low mood by identifying thought patterns that fuel anxiety and testing small behavioral experiments to shift those patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked over time.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't possible, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, allow for shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and reduce travel time so people can focus on practicing new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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