Richard Yates, LPC

Richard Yates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people when life feels overwhelming. He listens first and works with each person to find practical steps that ease daily strain and restore a sense of control.

He focuses on clear strategies you can use between sessions. Those strategies aim to reduce anxious thoughts, manage strong emotions, and improve day-to-day functioning. He commonly supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, stress, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, and ADHD-related problems.

Richard uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, to shape therapy sessions. CBT targets the thinking patterns that fuel distress. DBT teaches emotional skills and ways to handle intense feelings without acting on them.

With four years of clinical experience in Texas, he draws on work with people in difficult circumstances to inform his approach. He emphasizes straightforward tools and step-by-step plans rather than long, abstract talks.

Sessions are practical and collaborative. He pays attention to impulsivity, men's issues, and concerns common in young adults while tailoring tools to each person. The aim is steady progress through achievable goals and consistent skill practice.

Online work using CBT and DBT skills

Richard commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with straightforward behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes learning emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and impulsivity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to decide whether CBT, DBT, or a mix fits their goals and life circumstances. This choice is reviewed as progress is made and adjusted to match what helps most.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls suit deeper therapeutic conversations, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or practicing skills between sessions. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, school, or family responsibilities.