Richard Cox

Richard Cox practises psychodynamic therapy with a simple aim - to explore the past in order to understand the present and open up a better future. He helps clients untangle patterns from their history, make unconscious dynamics more visible, and build the self-awareness that supports healthier living.

Working psychodynamically - psycho relates to the mind and dynamic to movement - Richard encourages insight, emotional experience, and exploration of repeated patterns. He engages at depth to help clients notice feelings, understand how anxiety operates in the body, and recognise the defences they use to cope.

Richard offers a compassionate, non-judgemental presence and creates space for difficult material. He frames suffering as a catalyst for growth and supports clients through the anxiety and discomfort that often accompany therapeutic change. He does not set out to ‘fix’ someone; instead he accompanies people as they rewrite their story and discover their own truth.

Sessions are available by video, phone, or text so people can access therapy in the way that fits their life. Early work focuses on identifying what brings someone to therapy, clarifying goals, noticing feelings, and understanding the coping strategies that may be holding them back.

Richard has eight years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, problems with eating and sleeping, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career issues, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue. He brings previous experience in mental health management, has served as a director and board member, and has represented community mental health charities.

He describes a practical framework he calls the Therapy FAD: feelings are waiting to be felt; anxiety is experienced as a bodily state rather than only a thought; and defences are ways we handle difficult feelings. Richard is a registered MBACP therapist - MBACP indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and he is based in the United Kingdom.

Clients describe Richard as formal, direct, and flexible. He is dedicated to consistent, grounded, and compassionate practice and aims to provide accessible, thoughtful therapy that honours each person’s courage in seeking help.