About Richard
Richard Champion is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, anger, and depression. He works with individuals to identify their strengths and build practical steps toward feeling better. Richard practices in Colorado and conducts sessions in English.
He focuses on understandable goals and simple strategies. Sessions often include talking through problems, learning new coping skills, and trying small changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Richard emphasizes resilience and the skills people already have rather than starting from scratch. Richard’s background spans substance abuse and mental health settings. That experience shaped a direct style that suits people who want clear tools and steady support.
He has worked with underserved communities and brings that perspective into each session. Typical concerns he addresses include anger management, parenting strains, trauma and abuse, chronic stress, and mood difficulties. He also helps with issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic health problems, and relationship communication problems.
Sessions may use evidence-based techniques to set goals and track progress. Richard aims to tailor approaches to each person’s situation and pace. The result is a practical plan people can use between meetings to manage symptoms and improve everyday functioning.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Richard commonly draws on evidence-based techniques that translate well to remote sessions. Cognitive Behavioral techniques focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through exercises and homework. These techniques help with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete skills to test between sessions.Motivational methods aim to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change by exploring values and building small, achievable steps. This approach is useful for substance use concerns, ambivalence about change, and building long-term habits.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as needed. This makes it easier to find strategies that fit daily life and move progress forward at a comfortable pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick updates, brief coping support, and ongoing connection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English