- Years in practice
- 8
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Richard
Richard Cox is a calm, direct counsellor who helps people who keep getting stuck in the same patterns. He works with clients who understand themselves but still find old reactions returning under stress. His approach is practical and engaged, aiming to shift how the body and feelings respond rather than just offering new ideas.
Richard focuses on feelings that are hard to access and the anxiety the body uses to hold those feelings down.
Background and approach
He pays attention to the moments when people move away from emotion and the habits that keep them coping but stuck. Sessions look at what actually happens in the body and between counsellor and client, not only at life stories. He uses attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to notice how early patterns shape current relationships.
Client-centred work helps people feel seen and heard while they test different ways of responding. Existential and Jungian approaches contribute to exploring meaning, inner experience, and recurring life themes. Richard has eight years of clinical experience and works in the United Kingdom.
He is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Over time he has developed steady, focused sessions that move beyond insight to new emotional experience. People come to him for anxiety, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns, addictions, grief, low self-esteem and repeated life patterns that don’t shift.
He aims to help clients notice how they do what they do, and find small practical changes that open new possibilities.
What Richard works with
Everything Richard lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Richard helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Richard lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Richard’s approaches translate to online work
Richard often combines attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people notice how early relationship patterns show up now. Attachment-based work looks at how past bonds shape current reactions and helps people explore new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and creating a steady relationship in which people can try different responses. He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to uncover repeated life patterns and unconscious habits that keep people stuck. That work helps identify what is recurring and gives a path to try things differently in the moment rather than staying stuck in explanation. Finding the right approach is part of the process. He works collaboratively to see what fits each person’s needs, goals and preferences. Early sessions focus on what shows up in the body and in interactions, and then the pair decide together which methods to use and how quickly to move. Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls allow observation of facial expression and body language, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit focused, body-aware sessions into a busy life or when travel is difficult, while keeping the same therapeutic aims.Questions people ask about Richard
What concerns can Richard help with?
He works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, parenting difficulties, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem.
What is his style of therapy like?
Sessions are active and focused. He pays attention to bodily reactions, the feelings clients avoid, and the habits that keep people stuck rather than only talking about past events.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has eight years of clinical experience and has logged thousands of hours working with issues like anxiety, trauma, attachment difficulties and long-standing patterns.
What credentials and location are listed?
Richard is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available?
He offers a variety of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does the cost of sessions work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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