About Rikki
Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor practicing in North Carolina. She brings 16 years of experience helping people cope with depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship stress, and life transitions. Rikki aims to help people find more joy and manage life’s ups and downs with practical skills and steady support.
She uses a client-centered attitude in sessions. That means she listens first and follows the person’s pace.
Background and approach
Rikki then pulls in tools from other approaches based on what each person needs. Sessions involve reflective questions, problem-solving, and skill-building. Rikki often works with people facing parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, compassion fatigue, and career pressure.
She also supports those dealing with mood disorders like bipolar, attention challenges such as ADHD, and issues tied to trauma and abuse. Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and chronic health-related challenges. In practical terms she blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with attachment-focused and emotion-focused strategies when helpful.
Conversations may focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, improving emotional connection, or clarifying personal values. The goal is to leave each session with something people can try between meetings. Rikki speaks English and provides counseling through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
She encourages straightforward, open communication and works collaboratively to set goals and track progress.
How Rikki’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how people connect with others. Online sessions can help identify patterns in relationships and build safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior for issues like anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Rikki will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment-focused work, CBT, or a mix of methods will likely be most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer real flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or during a short break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and continuing work between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English