About Richard
Richard Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 12 years of experience. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. He speaks English and Spanish and connects with clients who need help sorting strong emotions or life changes.
He blends evidence-informed techniques with a client-centered stance. Sessions focus on steps people can take between meetings. That may mean testing a new way of talking to a partner, practicing a simple thought exercise, or setting small goals for daily routine.
Background and approach
Richard draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone wants support making a big change, like addressing substance use or building healthier habits.
Over more than a decade he has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, caregiver stress, grief, chronic illness, work burnout, intimacy issues, and mood disorders. He aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant to everyday life rather than abstract or distant. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
Prospective clients complete a short questionnaire to match with his practice and then schedule a time that works for them.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Richard often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take action despite difficult feelings. This approach supports people facing grief, chronic illness, or ongoing anxiety by focusing on values and small, consistent steps.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for stress, depression, and relationship patterns because it breaks problems into manageable parts and practices alternatives in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions may blend techniques so the work feels practical and personalized rather than rigid.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or homework exchanges easy between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines without long travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish