Richard Whitton

Richard Whitton is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. He emphasizes practical steps and steady support when people are facing intense emotions or life changes. He invites clients to build on their strengths and take manageable steps toward feeling better.

His work focuses on common but painful problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. He also helps people who are coping with bipolar disorder, grief, sleep disturbances, and anger. Richard pays attention to how relationships and past hurts affect current behavior and mood.

In sessions he uses clear, action-focused methods alongside reflective listening. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice and calm strong feelings. He also uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques to set realistic goals and keep momentum.

Richard emphasizes collaboration. He treats clients as partners who know their story best, and he helps them try small changes that add up. He aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, with concrete tools people can try between meetings.

People who come to him often want help with communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, or managing compassion fatigue. He works in English from his Florida practice and asks prospective clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How his approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early and current relationships shape reactions and expectations. In practice this looks like talking through relationship patterns, noticing triggers, and trying new ways of relating that reduce repeated upset. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing small changes to reduce stress and mood swings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help lower reactivity and manage strong emotions.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Richard works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using one fixed method. That collaborative process helps shape the plan and the pacing of work together.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into busy weeks, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that works better. It can also make practicing skills between sessions more convenient, since people can try tools in the settings where they need them most.