About Richard
Richard Bennett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or struggles with addiction. He offers calm, respectful support for people trying to regain confidence or sort out difficult relationships. He works in English and has three years of professional experience, and he holds BACP accreditation.
Richard keeps sessions straightforward and tailored to each person. He aims to listen closely and build a plan that fits the client's needs and pace.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and how past patterns may be affecting present choices. He uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how early relationships and repeated ways of coping can shape feelings today. That helps people understand recurring fears, attachment worries, or a tendency to withdraw.
Richard also draws on somatic practices that pay attention to the body and sensations. This can be helpful when stress or trauma shows up as tension, numbness, or physical discomfort. Sessions can address a wide range of concerns, including grief, codependency, chronic illness, hoarding, impulse difficulties, and questions about life purpose.
He describes the first step as a conversation where the client and counsellor agree goals and ways of working together. Richard aims to be patient and non-judgemental while supporting people through change. He encourages small, manageable steps and adapts his approach as progress unfolds.
How psychodynamic and somatic approaches work online
Psychodynamic work looks at how past relationships and repeated patterns affect today’s emotions and choices. Online sessions can use conversation to uncover these patterns, helping people make sense of recurring fears, attachment worries or avoidance.Somatic therapy pays attention to body sensations and how stress shows up physically. In remote sessions a counsellor may guide simple body awareness, breathing or movement exercises and invite you to notice how feelings appear in the body. This can help with tension, low energy or panic responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will help you choose what fits. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as goals and needs become clearer.
Online work offers real practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins, journalling-style reflection or days when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limits and let people try different formats until they find what helps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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