About Richard
Richard Rodgers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience in mental health and addiction care. He began his path after serving in the Army National Guard and now helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and related concerns. He practices from Indiana and offers therapy in English.
Rick’s work grew from direct experience with service members and community clients. He has practiced in inpatient and outpatient settings and has focused a large portion of his career on addiction alongside mood and trauma-related issues.
Background and approach
His background includes a Bachelor’s in Community Health and a Master of Social Work, and he holds the LCSW credential. In sessions he listens first and tailors a plan to each person’s needs. He uses a mix of talk-based methods and behavioral tools.
He aims to help people build coping skills, face difficult memories, and move toward daily routines that feel manageable again. Richard draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. He adapts techniques to concerns such as phobias, sleep problems, parenting strain, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles.
Practical goals like improving sleep, reducing panic, managing cravings, or rebuilding communication are common in his work. He supports people navigating life changes, chronic illness, and burnout. Sessions focus on clear steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-based action so someone can make steady choices even while feeling anxious or fearful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns like panic, phobic avoidance, or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Decisions are collaborative, and methods can be adjusted if something doesn’t fit or isn’t helping as expected.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat supports quick check-ins or brief problem-solving between sessions. These options aim to give flexibility so people can keep progress going even when schedules are busy or travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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