About Richard
Richard Banton is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. He offers a mental wellness approach that focuses on helping people shift how they experience daily life. He speaks plainly about change and practical steps toward feeling better.
He uses ideas about mind, consciousness, and thought to help clients notice how painful moments form. Richard helps people see patterns they repeat and learn small, concrete ways to interrupt those cycles.
Background and approach
The aim is to build steadier mood, clearer thinking, and more confidence in daily living. His work covers common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. He also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar concerns, and ADHD.
He helps with relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, career questions, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver strain. Richard draws on several counseling methods to match the person in front of him. He blends acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral tools.
Skills from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally focused work are used when they fit the situation. Sessions are offered from New Mexico and he can work with international clients in English. People who want to begin can expect a simple intake to describe their goals and then a plan that fits their life and needs.
Online approaches that fit daily life
Richard commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). ACT helps people notice what matters to them and take small committed steps even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people feel heard so they can find their own path forward. CBT breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change reactions and mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This is a collaborative process that aims to find what actually helps each person in their daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper sessions, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, between-session support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, travel, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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