About Ricci
Ricci Oppenlander uses a practical, goal-focused approach to help people move forward. She emphasizes each person’s values and strengths and works with them to set clear, manageable goals. Ricci is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of experience based in Michigan.
She speaks English and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and doable for busy lives. Ricci typically supports adults who are dealing with depression and anxiety and the related stress that follows.
Background and approach
She helps people handle grief, self-esteem struggles, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and career stress. Additional areas of focus include communication problems, forgiveness, life purpose, multicultural concerns, and issues faced by young adults. Her style centers on building a respectful, trusting relationship.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on small changes that add up. Ricci uses practical tools from cognitive and acceptance-based approaches while honoring each person’s unique perspective and values. Clients can expect a collaborative partnership where openness and honesty guide the work.
Ricci encourages people to try new behaviors and notice what works for them. She also integrates existential ideas about meaning when people are questioning life purpose or direction. Ricci draws on eight years of clinical experience to tailor strategies to each client’s goals.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions to fit different schedules. The aim is steady, achievable progress toward clearer direction and greater well-being.
How Ricci’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck by teaching practical ways to notice thoughts and choose meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress management. Attachment-Based ideas inform the way she builds a trusting working relationship, helping people understand how past connection patterns affect current relationships and feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ricci works together with each person to pick tools that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so therapy stays focused and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when that fits, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a shorter check-in option, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and let people choose what works best for them.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English