About Richard
Richard Banton is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. He practices from a mental wellness perspective and helps people who want a different way to understand their struggles. He works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and anger.
He also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT matters.
Background and approach
Phobias are listed among his areas of focus. Richard explains how moment-to-moment experience is shaped by mind, consciousness, and thought. He talks through how those processes create painful feelings and habits.
When people see these patterns, they often find they can change them and gain more calm and clarity. His approach draws on methods that encourage acceptance, values-based action, and practical behavior change. Sessions center on exploring what matters to the person and on small, doable steps that move toward those values.
The style is straightforward and aimed at everyday life, not jargon. Richard has worked across varied settings and brings long-term clinical experience to each conversation. He offers options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and taking small steps toward what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, and struggles such as phobias by shifting attention to meaningful action rather than fighting every uncomfortable feeling.Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own perspective and values, offering a nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and build self-understanding. This approach supports people who want to clarify goals, improve self-esteem, or navigate life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT techniques are commonly used for anxiety, mood concerns, and behavior change work.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session focus and homework or exercises between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see body language and have deeper conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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