About Richard
Richard Ingram-Hegenbart is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Montana with four years of experience. He focuses on common life struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. He aims to make starting therapy less intimidating and supports people taking that first step.
He creates a straightforward, open space where clients can talk about their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions move at a client's pace and focus on practical ways to cope and build confidence.
How Richard works
Richard draws on everyday language rather than clinical jargon to keep conversations clear. His work covers a wide range of challenges including relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, sleeping difficulties, and parenting stress. He also helps people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and struggles with self-esteem.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, and issues around control and impulsivity. Richard uses approaches that match a person’s needs. He combines attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices to support change.
The aim is to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build skills that fit their daily life. Sessions are meant to be practical and collaborative. Richard helps clients identify clear goals and steps to reach them.
He encourages curiosity about thoughts and behavior while keeping work grounded and usable between sessions.
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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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns influence current relationships. It helps people notice attachment needs, reduce reactive responses, and improve how they feel close to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and impulsivity. Mindfulness Therapy trains present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce rumination and support emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a client's situation, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods that fit. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most, so clients stay involved in deciding next steps.
Online work can be flexible and practical. Video calls let people read facial expression and tone, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, quick coaching, or reflection between sessions. Together these options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and try different formats to suit changing needs.
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