Rikki Bullard, LPC, LCMHC

Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, and major life changes. Rikki aims to help people find more joy and better daily functioning through practical skills and steady support.

Rikki uses a client-centered stance that starts by listening to where someone is right now. From there she blends methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to match each person's needs. Sessions often include reflective questions, practical tools, and work on patterns that keep problems repeating.

Her background includes many years of individual counseling across concerns like stress, self-esteem, grief, addictions, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger concerns, chronic illness and pain, and aging and geriatric issues.

Rikki values open, honest communication and aims to offer empathic and sensitive care. She helps people practice new ways of coping, improve communication, and make changes that fit their life. Her approach emphasizes collaboration and gradual progress.

To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability. Rikki works in English and provides care from her practice in North Carolina.

How her approaches guide online therapy choices

Rikki uses client-centered techniques that start by listening to what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on the client's goals and builds sessions around their needs, making it easier to adapt therapy to an online format.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and to practice different behaviors. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear tools and exercises to use between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they connect with others, which is useful for relationship, intimacy-related, and family concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on the client's goals, preferences, and life circumstances. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful and practical.

Confirm current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce time spent traveling. Many people find online sessions help maintain continuity during major life changes while still working directly on patterns, skills, and relationships.