About Richard
Richard "Rick" Frisby is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and difficulties in relationships. He works with adults who struggle with self-esteem, social anxiety, isolation, and related emotional concerns. Rick practices from Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
Rick keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens closely, helps people name what feels most urgent, and suggests small steps to try between meetings. Conversations focus on coping skills, clearer thinking, and ways to make everyday life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
With four years of experience as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor, Rick draws on techniques that research supports for mood and trauma concerns. He also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment challenges, addiction, chronic pain or illness, and eating-related struggles. He tailors work to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
People who reach out can expect a respectful, non-judgmental tone and an emphasis on practical strategies. Rick invites clients to explore how past experiences shape current reactions and to practice new patterns in small, doable steps. He frames progress as steady practice, not instant fixes.
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Rick uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on mood and trauma recovery. One common approach he uses centers on practical coping skills - teaching breathing, grounding, and emotion-regulation strategies that help reduce overwhelming feelings in the moment. These techniques are useful for anxiety, panic, and stress reactions.Another frequently used method targets thinking patterns and behaviors by helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. This style helps with low mood, worry, and relationship patterns by breaking problems into specific, testable steps people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rick treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients choose which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He adjusts the plan as progress is made and as challenges change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity even when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English