About Richard
Richard Gordon-Smith helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship worries, parenting strains and a wide range of other concerns. He is Richard Gordon-Smith, NCPS, with 13 years working in mental health and counselling. He aims to make the first step feel less daunting and offers a calm, straightforward way to begin.
People come to him for troubles such as depression, addiction, grief, trauma and issues with intimacy or self-esteem. He also supports those dealing with sleep or eating problems, anger, career uncertainty, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
How Richard works
Specialist interests include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, fatherhood issues and alternative-sex-culture matters such as BDSM and kink. Richard trained in psychology and completed an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling at the University of Manchester. He holds NCPS as a credential and has continued to work in the mental health sector for over a decade.
That background gives him a practical understanding of emotional patterns and relationship dynamics. In sessions he works in a straightforward, supportive way. He adapts his approach to the person and situation, drawing on client-centred conversation, emotion-focused work, cognitive ideas and psychodynamic thinking when helpful.
The focus is on what the person wants to address and what will be useful right now. Therapy with him tends to be collaborative and down-to-earth. He listens, asks clear questions and helps people spot patterns or try small changes.
The aim is to make daily life feel more manageable and help people move toward the goals they set for themselves.
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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and expectations in current relationships; it can help with trust, closeness and attachment issues. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the session and creates space for them to lead the conversation while the counsellor reflects and supports their self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and current difficulties and then agree a way forward together. That collaborative decision can change as therapy unfolds and new priorities emerge.
Online work with him can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a full face-to-face style session, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and messaging can suit shorter updates or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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