About Richard
Richard "Rick" Frisby is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. He practices in Arizona and works to make therapy straightforward and easy to understand. Rick uses practical tools and steady support to help people feel more capable day to day.
Rick keeps sessions focused on the problems people bring. He listens for patterns that make life harder, then suggests small, manageable steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how self-esteem, attachment, and past losses affect current relationships and feelings. With four years of experience as an LPC, Rick has worked with people dealing with social anxiety, isolation, and men's issues, as well as those coping with chronic pain and codependency.
He also supports people navigating adoption and foster care questions, aging concerns, and challenges linked to autism and avoidant personality traits. Rick favors approaches grounded in research and adapts them to each person’s needs. Sessions are practical and collaborative, with a focus on skills that can be used outside of therapy.
He respects spiritual perspectives and personal values as part of the healing process. People who choose him can expect a calm, direct style and clear suggestions. He aims to help clients build coping strategies, improve relationships, and move toward steadier moods.
Initial steps are simple: a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Rick draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach he uses teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as grounding exercises and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with gentle behavioral experiments to ease low mood and improve motivation.Choosing the right approach happens together. He works collaboratively with each person to match methods to their goals, values, and daily routines. If something isn’t working, he adjusts the plan and tries different techniques until it fits the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people maintain visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit care into work, school, or caregiving schedules and make continuing treatment more practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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