Richard McDonald, LCMHC

Richard McDonald is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and life changes. He speaks English and uses straightforward, practical ways of working in sessions.

Richard draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness approaches. Sessions tend to focus on clear problems, goal-setting, and skills you can use between meetings. He aims to make sessions direct and useful, with concrete strategies for coping and change.

With five years of counseling experience and a background that includes work in human services, he brings both clinical tools and real-world perspective. He adapts pace and techniques to suit what a person needs right now. That might mean practicing new thinking patterns, learning emotion regulation skills, or using values to guide decisions.

People meet him for single-issue support or ongoing work through complex concerns like post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, substance use, parenting strain, or relationship stress. He helps people sort priorities, identify workable steps, and track progress over time.

Richard offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on availability.

Approaches and online care that focus on skills

Richard commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. ACT emphasizes values and committed action, helping people move toward what matters despite difficult feelings.

He also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, building rapport, and shaping sessions around the person's own goals and pace. Together these methods provide both structured skills work and space to process feelings, so the approach is chosen with the person rather than imposed.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether CBT, ACT, or a more client-centered style will be most helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief updates between sessions. These options let people fit counseling into busy schedules and choose the format that feels most practical.