About Richard
Richard Goldin uses Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavior approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and cope better. He brings 23 years of clinical experience and a practical focus to sessions. He works from Illinois and speaks English.
Richard holds an LCSW, which is a licensed clinical social worker credential in Illinois. He discovered this work after a personal experience with depression during a business failure. That experience shifted his view about how thoughts influence mood.
Background and approach
He decided to move from business into mental health and addiction counseling to help others make similar shifts. In sessions he helps people challenge self-defeating beliefs. He also teaches skills to manage strong emotions and urges.
He draws on approaches like mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support change. Richard works with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma, and relationship difficulties. He also addresses issues such as parenting stress, self-esteem, eating and intimacy-related problems, and work or career stress.
He emphasizes identifying personal values and setting goals that match those values. Treatment tends to be practical and skills-based, with attention to motivation and small, achievable changes. The aim is to reduce suffering and increase positive emotions over time.
Using CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness in Online Care
Richard often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people manage thoughts and emotions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, and other concerns. DBT teaches skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship problems. Mindfulness therapy adds attention and awareness practices that reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend which methods to try first. Progress is reviewed regularly and adjustments are made together so the work matches real-life needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and hold longer sessions, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports frequent, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English