About Rick
Rick (Richard) Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker who uses relationship-focused approaches to help people facing stress and emotional pain. He draws on attachment and client-centered work to make sense of relationship patterns and emotional reactions. Rick practices in Minnesota and brings 10 years of experience as a LICSW.
Rick helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. He also supports those coping with parenting strain, career changes, anger, and compassion fatigue.
How Rick works
Conversations tend to focus on practical steps that fit day-to-day life. His sessions often explore how early bonds shape current relationships. That can look like noticing patterns of closeness and distance, and trying new ways of relating.
He uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. Rick takes a direct but warm style. He invites people to describe what is hard right now, then sets small, doable goals.
Work in sessions mixes reflection, skill practice, and planning for real-world challenges. People bring a wide range of concerns, including intimacy struggles, parenting questions, adoption and foster-care issues, ADHD, dissociation, and trauma-related symptoms. He also addresses communication problems, codependency, and the emotional impact of separation.
For those who prefer evidence-informed methods, Rick blends attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, existential, and Gottman-informed ideas. He aims to help people feel clearer about themselves, improve important relationships, and cope better with life changes.
Rick lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Rick works with
The areas below are the ones Rick 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approach-informed online therapy that fits your life
Rick uses attachment-based work to look at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses. That approach helps with intimacy struggles, communication patterns, and attachment concerns.He also uses client-centered methods that prioritize each person's experience and pace. This means the therapist listens closely, follows what matters most to the client, and helps them find their own solutions.
When useful, Rick brings cognitive behavioral techniques into the online sessions to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors. These tools are practical for anxiety, mood shifts, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying a few ways of working and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to process thoughts between longer sessions.
These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for people juggling work, family, or geographic distance.
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