About Richard
Richard Ingram-Hegenbart is a Montana clinician who brings clear, practical help to people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. He holds the LCPC credential and has four years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career concerns, and depression. He aims to make the first step feel manageable and affirms the effort it takes to begin therapy.
He keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Conversations cover thoughts, feelings, and daily habits. He listens without judgment and works with people to set realistic goals they can try between sessions. Richard blends several approaches to match a person's needs.
He draws on attachment ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. He uses elements of cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new skills. He also incorporates client-centered and mindfulness ways of working to keep sessions grounded in the person’s own values and present experience.
Common topics include relationship strain, sleep problems, parenting stress, workplace burnout, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with major life changes. He also helps people facing deeper issues like trauma, attachment wounds, guilt, and difficulty trusting others. Richard aims for practical, doable steps that fit a person's life.
He encourages small experiments and regular check-ins to track progress. People who want clear guidance paired with a respectful, collaborative tone tend to find his style helpful.
How his approaches translate to online work
Richard commonly uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships influence current reactions. This helps when people struggle with trust, intimacy, or patterns that repeat in relationships. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He works collaboratively with each person to choose which ideas and exercises to try based on goals and preferences. Sessions often mix listening, practical exercises, and short homework, and adjustments are made as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, or ongoing text messaging for steady support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or other commitments and let people pick the format that helps them stay consistent with care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English