About Richard
Richard Banton is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. He practices in New Mexico and uses a wellness-focused approach that helps people move beyond labels and toward more peaceful daily life. He emphasizes practical, understandable ideas about how thoughts and awareness shape experience.
In sessions he explains three basic ideas about mind, consciousness, and thought. Learning these ideas helps many people notice how they create painful reactions and begin to shift them.
Background and approach
Richard works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and anger. He also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, sleep and eating problems, parenting stresses, career challenges, and self-esteem issues. Additional topics include grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and caregiver fatigue.
His practice blends several approaches to match what each person needs. He draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused ideas. Sessions focus on real-life skills, clearer values, and small steps that fit daily routines.
Richard identifies as LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and he brings a straightforward, respectful style to conversations. He aims to help people find calmer ways of handling hard moments, rebuild confidence, and take practical steps toward wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It uses mindfulness and action planning to reduce the hold of painful thoughts and move life in a chosen direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to change mood and behavior. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and many daily problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often mix ideas from different approaches so the plan matches what’s actually happening in life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between meetings or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options help people maintain continuity of care while adapting sessions to their schedule and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, New Mexico
- Languages
- English