Rikki Bullard, LPC, LCMHC

Rikki Bullard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Her work often includes support for parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and career stress.

Rikki uses a client-centered approach that begins by listening and following each person's pace. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her work around intimacy and connection when that is part of the concern.

Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth. Rikki helps people build everyday skills for managing mood, reducing anxiety, and handling conflict. She also addresses issues such as self-esteem, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and coping with chronic illness or loss.

Her background includes years of individual counseling in diverse settings, with experience supporting people through major life changes and trauma recovery. That experience informs how she tailors strategies to each person's needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.

To begin, Rikki asks questions, reflects what she hears, and works with clients to set goals that feel realistic. Her aim is to help people move toward greater calm, clearer relationships, and a stronger sense of well-being.

How Rikki’s Approaches Shape Online Work

Rikki combines client-centered principles with attachment-based and cognitive behavioral tools to help with relationship and life concerns. Client-centered work means the therapist listens, reflects, and follows the client's pace to set goals together. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and help people change those patterns for healthier interactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Rikki will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking since formats are not listed in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also help people maintain continuity during life changes. Talk with Rikki about how to structure sessions so they match your schedule and the kind of support you want.