Richard Gonzalez
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Richard
Richard Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker who uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people cope with stress and life changes. He draws on 12 years of experience to guide clients through anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around relationships and intimacy. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and take place from his Florida practice.
He emphasizes clear, step-by-step work rather than jargon. Conversations focus on concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling everyday pressures at home and work.
Background and approach
He blends different methods to match what a person needs in the moment. Richard often uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while also clarifying personal values and goals. He can coach clients through parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness challenges, and career-related difficulties.
Trauma, substance concerns, and complicated grief are also within his scope of practice. In sessions he listens without rushing and helps people name what matters most to them. He explains options and builds small, doable steps so progress feels realistic.
The aim is steady improvement in mood, coping, and daily functioning. People who work with Richard typically encounter a mix of evidence-based tools and practical coaching. His practice supports work on attachment issues, codependency patterns, control problems, and aging-related concerns.
The tone is direct, respectful, and focused on results.
Therapeutic techniques that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and building small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions by shifting attention from avoiding pain to living with purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them against real experience, then practice new behaviors that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood problems, and managing stress. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals and pace at the center of work, with the therapist offering empathy and practical feedback rather than directing the process. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort out priorities and feel heard.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying a method, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together if something isn’t helpful.
Online therapy with this clinician can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions fit a busy life. These formats allow for regular check-ins, homework support between meetings, and flexible scheduling when travel or caregiving gets in the way. For many people, that flexibility makes it easier to stay consistent and build steady progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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