About Richard
Richard Wollocombe is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 14 years of practice. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem and depression. He also helps those dealing with major life changes and the fallout they can bring.
He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts conversations to each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that can be used between meetings. He aims to make the process straightforward and respectful.
Background and approach
Richard often helps people untangle issues around abandonment, attachment and relationship patterns. He also supports those affected by adoption and foster care histories, and people adjusting to ageing, long-term health conditions or cancer. Practical coping skills are a common part of his work.
People contact him for help with communication problems, codependency, commitment worries and control issues. He also works with concerns such as body image, emptiness and avoidant personality patterns. Sessions look at what is getting in the way and what might work better.
Richard emphasises a collaborative style. He listens, offers options and tailors a plan to what matters to the person. He aims to help clients build confidence and get clearer about next steps.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Richard draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasises identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and acting; this helps when anxiety, low mood or negative self-beliefs are getting in the way. Another approach concentrates on learning coping skills and practising small behavioural steps to manage stress, anger or painful life changes; it is useful for building daily routines and stronger responses to triggers.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk through options, consider what matters to the person and agree a plan that matches goals and preferences. That process is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feeling, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can suit short check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These formats allow sessions to fit around work, family life and mobility limits while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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