About Gregory
Gregory Rico greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. He is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Gregory also supports clients facing LGBT-related issues, grief, addictions, and challenges with self-esteem. He keeps conversations practical and person-centered. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Gregory listens for what matters most and then helps clients set realistic, step-by-step goals.
Background and approach
His work draws on methods that encourage clear thinking and small changes. He uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice and adjust unhelpful thinking patterns. He also uses solution-focused techniques to build concrete strategies that fit day-to-day life.
Gregory brings experience with a wide range of concerns, including sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and career transitions. He also addresses attachment, body image, caregiver stress, gender dysphoria, and issues around HIV/AIDS and end-of-life care. People find his style direct but compassionate.
He aims to make the process understandable and manageable. If someone wants practical support and clear next steps, he offers an approach built around their goals.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Gregory often uses client-centered methods that put the person's goals first, focusing conversation on what matters and shaping sessions around individual needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and develop new behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes brief, practical steps and builds on what is already working to create clear, achievable progress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gregory will work together with each person to decide which methods to try, adjust techniques based on results, and set measurable goals. The plan can change over time as needs and priorities shift, and the therapist will check in regularly to make sure the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper work, phone calls can fit during a break or when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English