About Richard
Richard Folkes is a counsellor with three years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression and relationship concerns. He aims to make the first step feel manageable and offers steady support as people begin to change.
He works in English and accepts international clients. Richard works from the view that each person knows their life best. He listens without judgement and helps people name what matters to them.
How Richard works
Conversations focus on practical steps and small changes that can make daily life easier. He uses client-centred ways of working to create a collaborative space. He also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and to try different responses.
For people with traumatic experiences he uses trauma-focused methods to address distress linked to past events. Sessions can cover many issues such as anger, grief, self-esteem, parenting pressures and workplace stress. He also supports people facing identity questions including LGBT matters, and those navigating relationship and intimacy difficulties.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, and challenges linked to adoption, attachment and ageing. Richard aims to keep sessions clear and straightforward. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled session to see if his approach feels right.
Richard lists 3 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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Richard’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The counsellor listens, reflects and follows what matters most to the client, helping them make decisions and notice their own strengths. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to how past events affect current reactions and uses careful, paced techniques to reduce distress related to traumatic memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Richard will discuss goals and preferences and will collaborate with the client to choose which methods to try. He adapts the mix of client-centred, CBT and trauma-focused techniques to fit each person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging works well for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring roles and travel, and make it easier to keep up with sessions over time.
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