About Ricardo
Dr. Ricardo Gillispie, PhD, LCSW helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes. He draws on five decades of clinical experience to guide people through parenting challenges, intimacy issues, sleep problems, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
He also addresses trauma, abuse, and a wide range of personality and mood concerns. He practices in a straightforward, calm manner. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear coping skills.
Background and approach
He listens for patterns in thinking and behavior and works with people to try new ways of responding. Over his long career he built and ran clinical programs, consulted for behavioral health services, and taught social work. He has experience developing geriatric outpatient programs and designing mental health services for correctional settings.
That background informs how he organizes care and supports people facing complex problems. Ricardo earned a Bachelor of Social Science in 1973, a Master of Social Work in 1975, and a PhD in social work in 2000. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Mississippi and has served on licensure and professional boards.
Sessions are conducted in English and can be scheduled for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. He works with clients locally in Mississippi and with international clients by online formats when appropriate.
Online approaches and how they translate to remote care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for mood disorders, stress, and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. That makes therapy a collaborative process where methods are blended to fit each situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use facial cues while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and access care when travel or schedule make in-person meetings difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 51 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English