About Randall
Randall Cripe is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate grief, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, career questions, and major life changes. He brings 18 years of professional counseling experience and a calm, relational approach to sessions. People meet him to talk through loss, attachment concerns, communication problems, and issues like abandonment or blended family stress.
Randall favors a client-centered style that keeps the person's goals and values at the center of the work.
Background and approach
He listens closely and uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people reframe difficult stories and move toward practical steps. Trauma-focused methods are used when past harm is central to the problem. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
That can mean untangling family of origin patterns, mapping steps for a career change, or creating ways to cope after a loss. He aims to help people identify strengths and small, doable actions that shift daily life. Randall draws on nearly two decades of counseling practice in Michigan.
He combines respect for each person's faith and beliefs with straightforward planning. The work is paced to what each person needs, not a preset program. People who choose him will find a steady, nonjudgmental presence and practical tools.
Whether the focus is on rebuilding after trauma, improving communication, or managing caregiving stress, sessions emphasize clarity, compassion, and real next steps.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Randall uses client-centered and narrative ideas to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people discover their own solutions; it can help with self-esteem, motivation, and day-to-day coping. Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite those stories so past pain or limiting beliefs no longer control choices.He also draws on solution-focused techniques to set clear, attainable goals and identify immediate steps that make life easier. These approaches are shared tools rather than fixed rules, and finding the right mix is part of the work. Randall collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and pace so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal signals. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a tighter schedule. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and step-by-step problem solving between longer sessions. Together these options offer flexibility and easier access to consistent support.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Randall address?
How would you describe his therapy style?
What background and experience does he have?
Where does he practice and what are his credentials?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with him?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English