Richard Banton, LCSW

Richard Banton is an LCSW with 25 years of practice, licensed in New Mexico and New Hampshire. He focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and related life challenges. He works with adults who want practical ways to change how they experience difficult feelings and situations.

He favors a mental wellness perspective rather than a mental illness model. That means he looks for ways clients can shift how they relate to thoughts and feelings, rather than labeling themselves as broken. He talks through three concepts - mind, consciousness, and thought - to help people notice how they create moment-to-moment experience.

Sessions aim to identify the patterns that keep painful reactions repeating. Richard guides clients toward concrete steps to interrupt those patterns. He explains ideas plainly, offers exercises to practice between sessions, and checks what actually helps in daily life.

Over his career he has worked with a wide range of concerns beyond anger, including addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting stress, body image, chronic illness, and ADHD. He combines several well-known approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to match what a person needs.

He accepts international clients and conducts work in English. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

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