Rikki Bullard, LPC, LCMHC

Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings 16 years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Rikki uses a direct, compassionate style and aims to give practical tools people can use between sessions.

Her work centers on a client-centered approach that adapts to each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and on attachment-based and emotionally-focused strategies to improve close relationships and emotional connection. Sessions emphasize clear questions, reflection, and straightforward techniques clients can try right away.

Rikki has a long history supporting people through trauma, grief, addiction, caregiving strain, and major life changes. She also helps with parenting stress, career transitions, and concerns related to ADHD, body image, and chronic health conditions. Her experience includes work with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and separation or divorce.

In session she aims for honest conversation and practical problem solving. Rikki offers coaching-style supports alongside traditional counseling for people who want concrete plans and skills. She focuses on helping clients find more calm, better communication, and greater confidence in day-to-day life.

To begin, she asks people to complete a short questionnaire and then matches them to scheduling options. That process helps shape initial goals and the plan for moving forward together.

How key approaches inform online work

Rikki often draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and feel more connected to others. This approach looks at how early connections shape current reactions and helps people build new ways of relating. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small changes in behavior to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rikki will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit those goals. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so therapy evolves with the client’s needs.

If you are interested in online therapy, confirm the specific session formats available before booking. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into a busy life because they can schedule shorter check-ins, avoid travel time, or choose sessions that work around work and family commitments. Licensed professionals can use online work to support skill practice, emotional processing, and planning for real-life changes without promising specific outcomes.