Richard Murray
Compassionate counsellor for difficult conversations
About Richard
Richard Murray is a counsellor with five years' experience working in the United Kingdom. He welcomes people who find it hard to speak about painful or confusing feelings and aims to make that first step less daunting. He lets conversations unfold at the client’s pace and does not judge what is brought to the room.
He creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about anxiety, stress, depression or trauma.
Background and approach
He also supports those dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues linked to gender and sexual identity. Practical day-to-day problems such as parenting strain, career uncertainties and caring responsibilities are included in his work. Richard uses a client-centred approach that focuses on the person rather than labels.
Sessions concentrate on what matters to the individual, their values and their aims. The pace is set by the client and the counsellor follows their lead while offering reflections and questions to clarify feelings. He is experienced supporting people through major life shifts, including divorce, bereavement and changes related to ageing or health.
He also works with concerns such as attachment difficulties, dissociation, body image and compassion fatigue among carers. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Richard describes options and helps people choose what suits their routines and needs.
To begin, people complete a short matching form and then schedule sessions that fit their timetable.
What Richard works with
How Richard works
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Sessions & fees
How a client-centred approach works online
Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of sessions and focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor reflects back what is said and helps the person find their own perspective, which suits issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and relationship concerns.Working this way online means conversations remain conversational and paced to the individual's needs. The counsellor follows the client's lead and helps them identify goals, try out new ways of thinking and notice patterns that cause pain. This approach can be useful for coping with life changes, trauma-related distress and ongoing stress from caregiving or work.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Richard will discuss different ways of working and will collaborate to choose what fits your needs and preferences. Together you will review progress and adjust how sessions are run to match goals and practical constraints.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and messaging lets people write when that feels most helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy life schedules and to keep continuity between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
