- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Anger management
About Richard
Richard Banton is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. He approaches therapy from a mental wellness view, helping people who want to move toward feeling more content and confident. He focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, and parenting concerns.
He also helps with trauma and abuse, anger, substance issues, grief, and relationship and intimacy questions. Richard uses plain language to describe how thoughts and consciousness shape moment-to-moment experience.
Background and approach
In sessions he helps people notice patterns that create painful emotions and then try different ways of responding. He often uses techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive work, and person-centered listening. The goal is practical change that fits each person's life and values.
Richard has worked across a wide range of life challenges, including career stress, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues around adoption or abandonment. He encourages clients who do not want to see themselves as damaged to consider a different view of how change happens. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and tools they can try between sessions.
He invites people to explore new perspectives that support calmer, clearer decision making and a greater sense of wellbeing.
What Richard works with
Everything Richard lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Richard helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Richard lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people focus on what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult thoughts. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood, sleep, and behavior changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences, try approaches that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process aimed at practical changes that match everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going from different places and routines.
Questions people ask about Richard
What concerns does Richard help with?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting questions, self-esteem, ADHD, and many other life challenges listed in his specialties.
What is his therapeutic style like?
Sessions are plainspoken and practical. He emphasizes a mental wellness perspective and helps clients notice how thoughts and consciousness shape their experience.
How much experience does he have?
He brings 25 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
He is an LCSW licensed in New Hampshire and New Mexico and practices from New Mexico.
Which languages are supported and can he work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and he accepts international clients.
What session formats does he offer?
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with him?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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