Richard Reihing, LPCC

Attachment-informed care and online therapy options

Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people relate today and helps identify patterns that affect current connections and emotions. It can be useful for relationship problems, abandonment concerns, and long-standing attachment worries.

Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and pace, offering a respectful space where the therapist reflects and clarifies so the client leads change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers clear techniques to test new ways of thinking and acting for anxiety, depression, and compulsive patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences rather than insisting on one path. That means trying a technique and adjusting if it does not fit.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or variable schedules. Video can support face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, chat or text messaging are useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier, and these options let people keep regular contact without commuting.