About Richard
Richard Gantt is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, phobias, mood shifts, grief, and relationship strain. He offers straightforward support for everyday struggles such as stress, low self-esteem, changes in life, and substance concerns. He works with adults and older adults and uses practical methods aimed at real-life results.
With 24 years of experience in Kentucky, he draws on a mix of approaches so sessions fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
He aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can sort through feelings and decide on next steps. Conversations focus on clear goals and manageable steps rather than jargon. His style blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools that target thinking and behavior patterns.
He also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing ideas help people find their own reasons to change and stick with new habits. In practice, sessions may include thought-challenging exercises, behavior experiments, skill-building, and looking at how past experiences influence current reactions.
He pays special attention to mood disorders like bipolar and depression, addiction and dual-diagnosis concerns, and the long work of grief and trauma recovery. People who choose him can expect a direct but respectful approach. He works collaboratively to set goals, track progress, and adjust methods as needed.
Therapy is framed as a partnership aimed at clearer thinking and better coping.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Richard combines client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in ways that work well online. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helping people make their own choices, which can be done through conversation and reflection during video or phone sessions. Cognitive-behavioral therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, often using short exercises and homework that transfer easily to text or video follow-ups. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills through step-by-step practice and coaching, which can be reviewed in live chat or in longer video sessions.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about goals, try approaches that fit each person's preferences, and adjust techniques as progress is tracked. Clients are invited to share what is and isn't helping so the plan evolves together.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face for skills practice, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging support quick questions, prompts, or daily progress notes. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic techniques available in person.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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