About Rikki
Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She draws on 16 years of experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. Rikki focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
She uses a client-centered stance that begins by listening and responding to what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
From there she weaves in methods from cognitive behavioral work, attachment-focused ideas, and emotion-focused therapy to address thoughts, patterns, and close relationships. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to process strong feelings and find clearer paths forward. Rikki has worked extensively with trauma and grief and brings that experience into how she supports people after distressing events.
She also provides guidance around career stress, addictions, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Parents and people navigating blended family situations can expect direct, practical strategies for everyday challenges. Her style blends warmth with straightforward tools - reflective questions, behavioral experiments, and repeated practice of new skills.
The aim is to reduce overwhelming moments and build routines that support mental health over time. Sessions can include planning small steps and tracking progress. Rikki speaks English and offers remote formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
How Rikki’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Rikki uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and attachment-informed ideas in her online sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, reflective questions, and tailoring sessions to what matters most to each person. This helps when adjusting goals or priorities over time.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online sessions can include homework, tracking thoughts, and short experiments to try between meetings. Attachment-based ideas look at how close relationships shape stress and emotional reactions, and work in therapy often targets communication patterns and safety in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rikki will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adapts techniques as progress is made so care stays relevant and useful.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick support, shorter check-ins, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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