Rickey McGregor
Supportive guidance for stress and relationship struggles
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rickey
Rickey McGregor is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, career struggles, and depression. He also addresses family and trauma-related issues, intimacy and anger problems, and related areas such as abandonment, blended family tensions, and caregiving stress. He speaks English and brings 13 years of professional experience to his practice.
Rickey aims for straightforward conversations. He listens first and then offers practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
His approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools when they fit the situation. Sessions are shaped to match each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. In practice, he helps people identify unhelpful patterns and test new ways of responding.
With CBT techniques he focuses on thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and low mood active. With EFT tools he helps people name emotions and improve emotional connections where relationship or intimacy concerns are present. Rickey emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in his work.
He tailors conversations and treatment plans to each client’s unique circumstances. He encourages small steps that build toward clearer goals and a more satisfying everyday life. Clients who are dealing with family problems, fatherhood issues, divorce or separation, codependency, grief, guilt, or end-of-life matters may find his mix of practical skills and emotion-focused work useful.
He supports people in finding realistic ways forward and regaining a sense of control.
Approaches and online options for building emotional skills
Rickey uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress. It breaks problems into small steps clients can practice between meetings.Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on naming and working with emotions, and on improving emotional connection in relationships and intimacy concerns. It helps people understand patterns that keep them stuck and learn different ways to respond to strong feelings.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different tools to see what fits. Together you and the clinician will adjust methods based on how things are going and what feels most helpful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats can make scheduling easier and let people work on skills from home or other convenient places. The variety of options means the practical parts of therapy - practicing skills, checking in, and tracking progress - can fit into busy lives.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point