About Rickia
Rickia Jessup-Clowney is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is supportive and grounded, and she treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Rickia invites clients to name what feels hardest and to notice their existing strengths.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build coping skills and to reduce overwhelm. Sessions are conversational and focused on small, realistic changes that add up over time. With five years of professional experience, Rickia has worked with people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image struggles, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment difficulties.
She also addresses issues like guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. In therapy she helps people unpack past hurt, develop clearer boundaries, and practice new behaviors in everyday situations. The work can include short-term skill building and longer conversations about patterns that keep coming up.
Progress looks different for everyone, and she tailors pacing to what a person can manage. Sessions aim to leave people with concrete tools for calming anxiety, improving self-worth, and managing hard emotions. Rickia encourages steady steps and offers steady support while people try new ways of coping.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Rickia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and understanding patterns. One common approach she relies on teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, grounding strategies, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. These methods help people gain more control over daily reactions and reduce overwhelm.She also draws on approaches that work with past hurt and attachment patterns, helping people make sense of how early relationships affect current behavior and relationships. This work often includes learning new ways to communicate, set boundaries, and respond to triggers so repeating cycles become easier to change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays practical and manageable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face from different places, phone can be a quicker check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat supports short updates and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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