About Richard
Richard Whitton is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience as an LMHC. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, bipolar disorder, and depression. He speaks English and offers sessions remotely using a variety of formats.
Clients meet a calm, straightforward counselor who listens first and then works together to set clear goals. He treats difficult moments as problems to solve rather than labels to carry.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on practical steps you can try between meetings. Richard uses approaches that help people build better ways of relating and thinking. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness strategies are added to help with emotional regulation and sleep difficulties. People also come for support with grief, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and career decisions. He helps with communication problems, forgiveness work, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress reactions, and social anxiety or phobias.
Sessions combine discussion, short exercises, and problem-focused planning. Richard believes clients bring strengths to every session and that change happens step by step. He encourages small, realistic goals that fit daily life.
If a different approach seems better, he will discuss options and adjust the plan together.
Approach and Online Care that Fits Your Day
Richard blends cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people notice thought patterns and improve their relationships. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. Attachment-based work examines how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions, which can help with communication problems, grief, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. That plan can change as needs become clearer, and decisions about methods are made collaboratively.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera helps. Live chat or text messaging can work for short updates, brief coping skills coaching, or quick scheduling and check-ins between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- 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