About Clarence
Clarence "Rick" Haynes helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. He also supports those coping with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Rick has 35 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, in Tennessee.
Rick keeps things straightforward in sessions. He focuses on building a trusting relationship first. Conversations are practical and paced to what each person can manage.
How Clarence works
The aim is to find small changes that add up to real improvement. He uses approaches that help people notice thoughts and make choices that match their values. Mindfulness practices and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help with overwhelming emotions.
Client-centered work ensures each person’s goals drive the process. Rick also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. That helps when feelings link back to past experiences like abandonment, attachment issues, or caregiver stress.
He can help people untangle guilt, shame, dissociation, or impulsivity that get in the way of daily life. Sessions often include goal-setting, problem-solving, and practical exercises such as journaling and mindfulness. Rick will work with a person to identify what matters to them and to build steps toward those aims.
He welcomes international clients and offers several online formats to fit different needs.
Clarence lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Clarence works with
The areas below are the ones Clarence selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. Online sessions can include exercises to clarify values and small behavioral steps to try between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage overwhelming feelings. Those practices work well in video or phone sessions and can be practiced during the week as short exercises.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as needs shift, and the plan is adjusted together in session.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to send updates, try brief coping skills, or check in between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, quieter surroundings, and varying comfort with being on camera.
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