About Ricky
Ricky Lomax is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 20 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. He focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions aim to help clients feel understood and make steady progress toward their goals.
He uses clear communication and a calm, respectful tone in sessions. Ricky helps people sort through difficult feelings, improve how they relate to others, and address intimacy and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
He also works with people coping with bipolar symptoms, grief from separation or divorce, and the effects of abuse. Ricky draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. He also uses client-centered methods to keep the sessions focused on each person’s values and pace.
For trauma-related work he applies trauma-focused strategies to address painful memories and their impact on daily life. His style is straightforward and collaborative. He asks concrete questions, suggests doable experiments between sessions, and reviews what is or isn’t helping.
Many people appreciate that he breaks larger problems into small, manageable steps. Ricky has a track record of two decades in clinical practice across a range of life challenges. He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
New clients follow a short matching process to begin scheduling.
Approach-driven counseling delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and choose small actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and difficulties around meaning and commitment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying concrete behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It’s useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress management. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on addressing the impact of traumatic events through careful, paced work to reduce symptoms and improve coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ricky will talk through options with each person and tailor methods to their goals, circumstances, and comfort. Decisions about which techniques to use are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper discussions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or scheduling when a full session is not needed. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while continuing consistent weekly or biweekly work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English