About Rikki
Rikki Bullard uses a client-centered approach to guide therapy sessions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports those facing trauma, addiction, grief, parenting strain, career transitions, and ADHD-related challenges. With 16 years of experience, Rikki draws on methods from attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused strategies, and existential ideas.
How Rikki works
She adapts sessions to each person and asks reflective questions to clarify needs. The tone in sessions is direct and compassionate, with practical steps that people can use between meetings. Rikki helps people build skills for coping with life changes and managing strong emotions like anger or persistent worry.
She also addresses issues such as codependency, body image, chronic illness and pain, and complications from adoption or blended family dynamics. When necessary she integrates approaches that focus on patterns in relationships and how past experiences affect present reactions. Sessions often include simple, actionable tools - for example thought records from cognitive behavioral therapy or exercises that strengthen emotional connection.
She aims to teach techniques that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Progress is tracked through clear goals and ongoing conversation about what is and isn’t working. People who meet with Rikki can expect straightforward feedback and steady support.
She encourages collaboration so goals stay relevant to each person’s life. To begin, clients follow the site matching process and schedule sessions that fit their needs.
Rikki lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Rikki works with
The areas below are the ones Rikki selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rikki often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a collaborative, respectful space where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach focuses on listening, reflective questions, and adapting sessions to what the client needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, and coping strategies. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and reactions, and can help with intimacy-related concerns and relationship distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend approaches that fit. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or during a short break, and text-based formats work well for ongoing check-ins or when people prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility issues while keeping therapeutic goals front and center.
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