Rikki Bullard

Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She draws on 16 years of experience to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and career-related concerns. Rikki focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier and more manageable.

She uses a client-centered way of working that starts with where each person is right now. Sessions are guided by the client’s needs and shaped by reflective questions. That approach lets her pull from several methods to match what’s most useful for the moment.

Rikki often incorporates techniques from cognitive behavioral work to address unhelpful thinking and patterns. She also uses attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas when relationships and intimacy are central concerns. These methods are used to support people facing family stress, trauma, grief, or major life changes.

Her practice includes support for parenting challenges, addiction-related issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also works with aging and adoption-related concerns, chronic illness, and communication or commitment problems. The goal is to help each person find better coping, clearer communication, and more consistent mood regulation.

Rikki aims for honest, empathic conversations that are tailored to the client’s life. She encourages small, achievable steps toward improved well-being and helps build practical skills for handling setbacks. If someone wants to explore coaching or therapy for career or personal concerns, she guides them through options and next steps.

How Rikki’s approaches translate to online therapy

Rikki draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and attachment-based perspectives in her practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what the person needs in the moment, which can fit well into online conversations. Cognitive behavioral work breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into practical steps and exercises that clients can try between sessions. Attachment-based ideas look at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and guide discussions about intimacy, communication, and trust.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rikki will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options when you book. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use tools and worksheets between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt homework, communication skills practice, and emotion-focused exercises to virtual sessions so clients keep momentum between appointments.