About Richard
Richard Whitton is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar symptoms, grief, and ADHD. He centers sessions on the person in the room and treats clients as the experts of their own stories.
He keeps things practical and straightforward in sessions. Conversations aim to identify small, workable changes that build over time. He listens for strengths and practical resources clients already have, then helps turn those into steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Richard uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness ideas to help people manage thoughts, moods, and daily routines. He also draws on attachment-based thinking to understand how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Solution-focused work helps when someone wants brief, goal-oriented change.
Sessions are meant to feel collaborative. The therapist helps set clear goals and checks in about what is and isn’t working. He encourages clients to try experiments, notice results, and adjust plans rather than waiting for big insight.
People come for a range of concerns from sleep problems and anger to parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Richard works in English with adults in Florida and supports a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term change work.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps when worries or reactions show up most strongly around other people or close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical tools to test unhelpful thoughts, change routines, and manage mood and anxiety symptoms.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about different methods and try approaches that fit the client's goals and preferences. Sessions often mix ideas - for example using CBT tools alongside attachment-based insights or mindfulness exercises - so the plan can shift based on what helps.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see nonverbal cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework discussions, or scheduling when a shorter touchpoint is needed. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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