About Rick
Rick (Richard) Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. He uses straightforward, practical approaches to help clients feel steadier and more connected. He often starts by listening to what matters most and by mapping out small, usable changes.
Sessions focus on building clear communication skills, managing mood shifts, and developing routines that reduce overwhelm. Rick aims to make therapy feel like a helpful conversation rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
With ten years of experience in Minnesota, he has worked with people facing grief, trauma, workplace strain, and the daily burden of ADHD symptoms. He pays attention to how attachment patterns and past losses shape current reactions. That helps clients spot repeating patterns and try new ways of relating.
Rick draws from attachment-based work and client-centered care to create a respectful, collaborative space. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people test thoughts and change unhelpful behavior. The Gottman Method informs his ways of teaching communication skills when relationships are a central concern.
He supports parents who feel worn down by caregiving and people navigating major life changes like separation or career shifts. Sessions aim at clear goals and practical tools so progress can be noticed between meetings. The tone is direct, kind, and goal-focused to help people move forward.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online work
Rick integrates attachment-based therapy to help people understand how early bonds influence current relationships, and he uses that work to improve communication and trust. He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. These approaches translate well to online formats and can address concerns such as relationship conflict, mood regulation, and ADHD-related struggles.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rick will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether attachment exploration, skill-based CBT, or a mix of methods will best support progress over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs. Video calls support deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging allows short, frequent contact. This range makes it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, parenting, and other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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