About Richard
Richard Castle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 24 years of experience. He focuses on easing stress and anxiety, navigating grief and loss, and addressing depression. He also helps people work through relationship concerns and offers coaching for life transitions.
He aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they’re feeling. Sessions focus on clear conversation and practical steps rather than jargon. Richard encourages gradual change and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
In therapy he listens for patterns that keep people stuck, like communication breakdowns or repeated choices that lead to regret. Together clients and he identify small, concrete goals and track progress over time. He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide those steps.
Richard has worked in counseling for many years across a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, impulsivity, and issues tied to money or midlife transitions. He also addresses problems such as commitment issues, infidelity, and fatherhood challenges by focusing on behaviors and communication.
Sessions are offered in English to people in Virginia and use a mix of phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. The process to begin is straightforward: start the matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to see if the fit feels right.
Approaches that guide online work
Richard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear thinking and behavior change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life situations to reduce anxiety and low mood. This helps people notice patterns that make stress worse and try new, more helpful responses.Another common approach targets behaviors and communication. It focuses on small, practical changes - like new ways to talk about concerns or routines that reduce impulsive reactions. This kind of work often helps with relationship strain, commitment worries, and managing anger or impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Richard works collaboratively with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. He checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent work and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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