About Richard
Richard Banton is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. He practices in New Mexico and draws on a straightforward, mental wellness perspective to help people change how they experience stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other challenges. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by showing how thoughts and attention shape daily experience.
Sessions use clear explanations and practical exercises, not jargon. The aim is to help clients notice habits of thinking and choose new responses that reduce suffering and increase calm.
How Richard works
Richard blends client-centered work with approaches that include acceptance and commitment, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and emotionally focused elements. He tailors those methods to each person’s needs and goals. This flexible use of approaches supports people with addictions, grief, relationship pain, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and many other issues listed in his specialties.
Clients can expect direct conversation, simple tools to practice between sessions, and an emphasis on building strengths rather than labeling deficits. He also helps with parenting strain, caregiving stress, body image and self-esteem, career questions, and intimacy-related concerns. Richard accepts international clients and holds LCSW licensure in New Mexico and other states.
He offers multiple session formats so people can pick what fits their schedule and life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect someone to a subscription plan and schedule sessions that match their availability.
Richard lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Richard works with
The areas below are the ones Richard selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on purposeful action instead of battle with every feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches clear strategies to shift those patterns. CBT often helps with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship so people can explore their concerns at their own pace and feel heard.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working together. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video helps when face-to-face conversation matters, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging is useful for short check-ins or when schedules are tight. These options let people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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