Rate Richard Cox

'"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...