About Richard
Richard Cox works with people who keep getting stuck in familiar patterns. He meets thoughtful, capable clients who already understand a lot about themselves but find the same reactions repeating under stress. He is calm and direct, helping people notice what their bodies and feelings are doing so change becomes possible.
Richard sees that much of the struggle comes from avoiding difficult feelings. He pays attention to how anxiety shows up in the body and how habitual coping keeps people stuck.
How Richard works
Sessions focus on what happens in the room and in the body rather than only talking about the past. His approach highlights emotional experience, bodily signals, and repeated patterns. He helps people recognise automatic moves away from certain feelings and the ways those moves shape relationships and self-view.
Work is paced to each person’s readiness so progress is steady rather than rushed. With eight years of practice and BACP registration, Richard has developed experience helping with anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship and attachment issues, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue.
He also works with concerns such as abandonment, dissociation, codependency, body image, and alternative sexual cultures including BDSM and kink. Sessions aim to teach the nervous system a new way of being. Clients leave with a clearer sense of how their difficulties operate day to day and what practical steps can shift those patterns.
Richard’s style is engaged, honest, and not afraid to challenge gently so real change can happen.
Richard lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Richard’s approach works online and in-session
Richard draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to understand how early patterns shape current reactions. Attachment-based work looks at how relationships and safety affect feelings and behaviour, helping people notice attachment habits and build different responses. Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to recurring patterns, unconscious motives, and how past experiences influence present choices, which helps with long-standing repetition and emotional shutdown.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will work collaboratively to identify what feels most useful for each person. Together they look at goals, how symptoms show up in daily life, and which way of working best fits the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction useful for noticing gestures and bodily signals. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it straightforward to keep momentum between sessions and suit people who prefer typed conversation. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to offer steady, accessible therapy that fits different schedules and circumstances.
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