Richard Rodgers
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Indiana, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Richard
Richard Rodgers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses practical, evidence-based therapy to help people manage hard moments. He draws on 10 years of clinical experience and focuses on straightforward, useful strategies. In sessions he listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals and steps.
Richard aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable for people juggling busy lives. He uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build values-based action when life feels overwhelming. Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships and how past patterns show up today. Richard has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has a strong background in addiction treatment alongside common concerns like depression, anxiety, and trauma.
He applies what he has learned to help people dealing with grief, sleep problems, anger, and parenting stress. His experience also includes working with people facing complex or overlapping issues such as co-morbidity and chronic illness. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
He may teach coping skills, rehearse new ways of communicating, and help create step-by-step plans for change. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Richard practices in Indiana and holds an LCSW.
He delivers care through several online formats so people can connect in ways that fit their schedules.
Therapeutic approaches offered online and how they help
Richard commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that cause stress and interfere with daily life. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and work or family-related stress.He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. That approach can be useful for managing chronic worry, grief, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around parenting, work, or other commitments and keep progress moving even when schedules change. Licensed professionals can use the format that feels most comfortable and practical for each person.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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