'"Richard's caring and insightful support each week helped me to cope with a very stressful and anxious period over several months and identify underlying patterns that were holding me back."
Hello and welcome
I'm Richard and my outlook towards therapy is simple: we explore your past to understand your present to make way for a better future.
Together, we’ll untangle the complications of your history, straighten your story, and support your self-discovery. We go from arrested development to healthy living—we heal beyond our history.
I work in what’s called a psychodynamic way: Psycho = Mind. Dynamic = Movement. Together, we do some movement of the mind.
Insightful Therapy
Healing begins with insight and awareness. We work at depth, exploring patterns, feeling feelings and experiencing emotions. Together, we make the unconscious conscious.
"Thought-provoking and thought-resolving."
Compassionate Presence
I listen without judgment. My silence is your space. Your pain is our starting point. Therapy is a trusting relationship we co-create—and our relationship heals.
“Helpful, insightful and extremely easy to talk to.”
Accessible Care
Whether via video, phone, or text—I'm with you. No office walls—just real connection from one human being to another.
Healing Wisdom
Pain isn't the enemy—it’s the catalyst. We come to therapy because we’re suffering. Our work is about transforming suffering into growth.
Trauma is buried, but it’s buried alive
Healing is anxiety provoking, messy and uncomfortable. Together, we’ll work through unresolved conflicts and buried emotions to help you experience, accept, and move forward.
Why Choose Richard?
Holistic Approach: Mind, body, spirit, and the symbolic. We come to realise our symptoms are reactions to historical adversity. Breakdowns can be breakthroughs, and our triggers are portals to deeper understanding.
I’m less interested in what’s "wrong" with you and more curious about what happened to you, where you’re hurting, and what keeps you stuck.
Safe and Explorative Space
Vulnerability is strength. Here, you are seen and heard. We explore your memories, dreams, hopes, and desires. You are more than your name, job title, or past. You are not what happened to you—you are what you choose to become.
Ancient Insight, Modern Tools
Traditional therapy on a modern platform. Freud meets FaceTime.
Your Ally in Healing
I won’t fix you. I walk beside you. Healing is a shared journey. Let’s rewrite your story and discover your truth.
What to Expect in Our First Session
Our first session is our time to get to know each other. We’ll talk about what’s bringing you to therapy, your goals. I’ll help you start noticing what you feel, how anxiety may interfere, the ways you’ve learned to cope and how these ways of coping could be holding you back in life right now.
This is your time, and your experience matters.
Richard Cox, Reg. MBACP
Clients describe me as formal, direct, and flexible.
My Commitment
I’m dedicated to providing excellence in therapy with a consistent, grounded, and compassionate dedication to practice.
Experience
I have supported clients navigating early psychological wounding, unresolved historical psychological difficulties, stress, anxiety, relationships, family conflicts, trauma, abuse, coping with life changes. My practice is shaped by a deep respect for the courage it takes to come to therapy.
The Therapy FAD
My work is increasingly shaped by what I call the Therapy FAD:
• Feelings are waiting to be felt.
• Anxiety isn’t a thought—it’s a bodily state.
• Defences are how we handle difficult feelings.
For more on this, you can read my post on therapists.com: “The Therapy FAD: Rethinking Our Feelings, Anxiety and Defences Across Modalities.”
Background
I have previously worked in mental health management, served as a director and board member, and represented community mental health charities.
I am a registered BACP therapist based in the UK with over 8 years of counselling experience and more than 3,000 hours of clinical work. I know what it means to sit in your chair—Because I had some historical wounds to heal too.
"There is nothing wrong with you. You have patterns to unlearn, new behaviors to embody, and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with the core of you."
Let’s begin the work that your future self will thank you for...
Additional areas of focus: 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
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #394009
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Richard listens intently and shows remarkable empathy in connecting and facilitating the therapy sessions. I felt an immediate ability to be open, trust, and be guided through the challenges of my journey. Richard has a gift, and this work must be his calling - I could not recommend him more.
Written on Dec 02, 2025 after therapy with Richard for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes
Richard is so empathetic and understanding. He's very patient and supportive. I really feel like he cares and listens. I feel so reassured that everything is private and confidential. I would recommend Richard to everyone. He's the Best.
Written on Sep 03, 2025 after therapy with Richard for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and anger management
Richard helped me massively! It made me think actively about how I can problem solve but also to be okay with things that can’t be changed. Highly recommend him.
Written on Aug 04, 2025 after therapy with Richard for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes
Lovely calm therapist who paces the conversation to make me feel comfortable sharing my feelings when im ready
Written on May 14, 2025 after therapy with Richard for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and intimacy-related issues
A very kind and considerate person, Richard’s calm demeanour always makes me feel comfortable and at ease, this allows me to open up more and be honest with myself. I always feel listened to but never judged.
Written on Jan 03, 2025 after therapy with Richard for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, career difficulties, and adhd
Richard and I have achieved something I never in my wildest dreams thought possible. I went from being plagued by self hatred, shame, guilt, thinking I don't deserve help, to a complete change of perspective, and most importantly hope for the future. If there is one thing I appreciate the most out of everything, it's this. The ability to hope. And to see myself in a more positive light despite my mistake.
Richard's style, is asking you the right questions. He'll answer some of your questions, sure, but mostly he'll respond with another question, and blow your mind when you figure out the answer yourself. Sometimes I found mysel thinking "Now why is he asking me this, how is this relevant?", but trust me, it always is. There's always rhyme and reason to the questions you get.
Thank you, Richard, for your patience and help with this journey!
Written on Dec 22, 2024 after therapy with Richard for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem