- Years in practice
- 16
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Rikki
Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing from North Carolina. She brings 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Rikki focuses on practical skills that fit everyday life and offers straightforward, compassionate support.
She uses a client-centered stance that starts by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. From there she draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based work to address patterns that get in the way of feeling steady.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all. Rikki often helps people facing family strain, parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem or addiction. She also supports those dealing with career transitions, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns and with issues that come from illness, disability, or aging. In practical terms she uses reflective questions and guided conversation to help people identify goals and build everyday tools. Clients can expect focused talk, behavioral ideas to try between sessions, and attention to how relationships shape wellbeing.
The work is about small, usable changes that add up over time. Rikki offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started and to schedule based on the therapist's availability.
What Rikki works with
Everything Rikki lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Rikki helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rikki lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- 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 adapted for online care
Rikki uses client-centered work to meet each person where they are, listening first and shaping sessions around individual needs. This approach helps prioritize what the client wants to change and keeps the pace flexible.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that breaks down thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful reactions. Attachment-Based Therapy is another focus; it looks at how close relationships affect emotional life and helps people change patterns that cause conflict or distance.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Rikki collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life, and she adjusts techniques as needs evolve. That shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the person in front of her.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility around work, caregiving, or travel. Video works well for more in-depth conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve as brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Rikki
What concerns does Rikki address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, addictions, self-esteem, and coping with life changes among other areas.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, using reflective questions and practical strategies to help people reach their goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience providing counseling in a range of settings and has focused on individual concerns like mood, trauma, and family-related stress.
Where is she licensed and located?
She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials and practices in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet.
How does payment or cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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