About Richard
Richard Rodgers approaches therapy with evidence-based methods that prioritize acceptance, emotional awareness, and practical skills.
Background and approach
As an LCSW with a decade of clinical experience, he integrates therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based strategies, and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and related concerns. He frames treatment around each person's goals, emphasizing collaboration and concrete steps toward improved functioning.
Richard’s background includes work across inpatient and outpatient settings and focused practice in addiction alongside mood and trauma-related conditions. He also addresses a wide range of issues including relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting and family difficulties, ADHD, sleep problems, chronic pain or illness, and compulsive or control-related patterns.
His LCSW license reflects formal social work training and clinical skill in these areas. In sessions he combines talk-based interventions with methods tailored to symptom patterns and life context, aiming to bolster resilience and coping strategies.
Richard offers flexible session formats and works in English; international clients are not accepted. Prospective clients can begin by selecting Start Therapy, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to his availability.
Integrating evidence-based therapies into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients learn to accept uncomfortable feelings while clarifying personal values and committing to actions aligned with those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and reshaping unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. This approach provides practical skills for managing day-to-day challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to explore which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time to match progress and changing priorities. Together they determine a plan that balances short-term symptom relief with longer-term growth.
Online therapy with this practitioner offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care across locations within the therapist’s scope, and access different communication styles depending on comfort and clinical needs.
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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