About Ricardo
Dr. Ricardo Gillispie, PhD, LCSW helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, addictions, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. He also works with concerns like sleep problems, ADHD, career stress, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
He practices from Mississippi and brings long experience to sessions. He uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels most urgent. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and steps a person can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He blends evidence-based methods with attention to attachment and life history to tailor plans to each person. Dr. Gillispie earned a PhD in social work and has over five decades of practice and leadership experience in behavioral health.
His background includes independent practice, program development for geriatric outpatient services, and consulting work for correctional and hospital settings. That experience informs a measured, problem-solving style. In the room he aims to be direct and respectful.
He listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps people test small changes. He frames therapy as teamwork and sets clear, workable goals. People who choose him can expect a mix of talk, practical exercises, and skills training drawn from approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance-oriented work.
The focus is on reducing daily distress, improving relationships, and building coping tools that fit each person’s life.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and learning small behavior changes that matter to the person. It is used to ease anxiety, depression, and trouble coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more helpful thinking and practical skills. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people rebuild safer ways of relating and trusting others.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experience with therapy, and daily routines. Then they will try methods that match those needs and adjust as progress is reviewed, making decisions collaboratively.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video is useful for full conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions work when lower bandwidth or no camera is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 51 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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