Rikki Bullard
Calm, practical support for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rikki
Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC based in North Carolina. She has 16 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her work often focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside issues like addiction, grief, and coping with life changes.
Rikki uses practical tools and steady support so people can handle difficult moments and move toward more stable days.
Background and approach
She emphasizes a client-centered style that starts by listening carefully and shaping sessions around what each person needs. From there she draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when those methods fit. Sessions include clear suggestions, reflective questions, and skills to try between meetings.
Rikki has a long history working with trauma, parenting stress, and relationship problems. She also addresses a broad range of related concerns, including ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, chronic illness impacts, and adoption or foster care matters. Her plain goal is to help clients find more balance and better ways to cope.
Her counseling blends empathy with direct, usable strategies. Conversations are focused on immediate problems and next steps, not abstract theories. Parents looking for support with family stresses will find an emphasis on workable routines, communication, and problem solving.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Approaches that guide online family and parenting support
Rikki often draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and behavior. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and offers ways to build more stable connections.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening, acceptance, and working at the client’s pace. That style is useful when someone needs a steady, understanding space to sort through parenting stress or life transitions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, appears in her work as a way to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT techniques are practical for anxiety, mood shifts, and coping with everyday parenting challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rikki collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques as progress is made so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and people juggling multiple responsibilities. Video calls and phone sessions recreate real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and day-to-day support. These options help clients fit counseling into their schedules and practice new skills between sessions.
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.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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