About Bruce
Bruce Richards is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years of practice in Massachusetts. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, anger, and low self-esteem. He also supports those facing grief, career strain, sleep problems, and major life changes.
He prefers short-term work and often collaborates with people on focused goals over a year or less. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
He aims to help people build confidence and find clear next steps. His approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, with Solution-Focused Therapy that zeroes in on small, useful changes. Together these methods are used to set concrete goals and try new behaviors between sessions.
Bruce draws on experience with mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and serious mental health concerns, while also addressing everyday challenges like parenting stress, workplace problems, and communication issues. He is committed to opposing discrimination and to advocating for people who have struggled with mental health concerns.
He invites people who feel unsure about their direction to come prepared to talk about what brought them here. He works collaboratively to map out a practical plan and stays engaged through the steps people choose to take.
Approaches and flexible online care
Bruce blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy into an online practice that aims for clear steps and measurable change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and experiment with different actions to reduce anxiety, depressive symptoms, and impulsive responses. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and small, achievable goals so people can move forward even when they feel stuck.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He collaborates with each person to test what methods fit best for their goals and daily life, adjusting plans as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected even when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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