About Ricky
Ricky Jones is a licensed professional counselor with 34 years in the field. He practices in Delaware and uses a straightforward, respectful style to help people facing hard moments. He treats people with sensitivity and aims to tailor conversation and care to each person’s needs.
He helps with stress and anxiety using techniques that calm the body and mind. He also works with grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and difficulties with intimacy or relationships.
Background and approach
His work includes support for people dealing with addiction, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar moods, and major life changes. Ricky draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. He uses somatic ideas that pay attention to bodily experience, and he blends practical tools from therapies like cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior work.
He may also include EMDR or relationship-focused methods when those fit the goals. Sessions are designed to be collaborative. Ricky listens first, then builds a plan that fits a person’s pace and situation.
He focuses on concrete steps people can use between meetings as well as what happens in the session. People often seek him out when everyday coping feels overwhelming. He aims to support and empower people to take the next steps toward changes they want.
The tone in sessions tends to be calm, direct, and focused on real-world results.
How somatic work and practical therapies fit into online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how feelings show up in the body; it can help when stress, trauma, or anxiety feel lodged in physical reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to change mood and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and try different tools to discover what helps most. That may mean shifting from skills work to somatic practices or bringing in EMDR or relationship-focused techniques when they match the need.
Online care offers flexibility for people balancing jobs, caregiving, or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skill coaching and somatic noticing, while phone or text options support brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement. Live chat and messaging can be useful between sessions to reinforce skills and stay connected to progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English