Richard Cox

鈥淒irect, grounded, and quietly challenging. I didn鈥檛 realise how much I was avoiding myself until I started therapy.鈥�

Hello, I鈥檓 Rick.

I work with people who are stuck in patterns they understand very well, but still can鈥檛 seem to change.

Many of my clients are thoughtful, capable, and self-aware. They鈥檝e reflected a lot. They often know why they are the way they are. And yet, under stress, in relationships, or in emotionally loaded situations, the same reactions keep repeating.

This isn鈥檛 a lack of insight. It鈥檚 your emotional and nervous system doing what it learned to do a long time ago.

My work focuses on three simple things:

鈼� The feelings you鈥檙e not yet able to fully experience

鈼� The anxiety your body uses to keep those feelings under control

鈼� The patterns and habits (often outside awareness) that help you cope, but also keep you stuck

Most suffering is not caused by our emotions. It鈥檚 caused by avoiding them.

This is an active, focused form of therapy.

We don鈥檛 just talk about your past or analyse your problems from a distance. We pay close attention to what happens in the room, in your body, and between us.

Together, we鈥檒l start to notice:

鈼� How anxiety shows up in you physically

鈼� How you automatically move away from certain feelings

鈼� How these patterns shape your relationships and your inner life

鈼� What we can do differently so something new can happen

Real change doesn鈥檛 come from simply understanding something. If it did, you wouldn鈥檛 be here. It comes from allowing your nervous system to have a new emotional experience.

I often work with people who:

鈼� Struggle with anxiety, overthinking, or emotional tension

鈼� Feel emotionally shut down, flat, or disconnected

鈼� Keep repeating the same patterns in relationships

鈼� Seem 鈥渉颈驳丑-蹿耻苍肠迟颈辞苍颈苍驳鈥� on the outside but feel stuck inside

鈼� Have tried therapy before and found that talking helped, but didn鈥檛 really change things

I organise my work around three simple truths:

鈼� Feelings don鈥檛 go away because we ignore them.

鈼� Anxiety is a body response, not just a thought.

鈼� Coping strategies (like overthinking, keeping busy, pleasing others, staying in control) often protect us, and also quietly limit our lives.

Therapy is about helping your system learn that it no longer has to work so hard to keep things contained.

I鈥檓 calm, direct, and engaged. I won鈥檛 push you faster than you can go. But I also won鈥檛 let you spend months going in circles without noticing it. I鈥檒l help you see how you do what you do, kindly and honestly.

Clients often describe me as:

鈥淕rounded, thoughtful, and more active than I expected in a good way.鈥�

What to expect in the first session

We鈥檒l look at:

鈼� What brings you to therapy now

鈼� How your difficulties actually operate day to day

鈼� How anxiety shows up in your body

鈼� How you currently cope with difficult feelings

鈼� What kind of work is likely to help

You鈥檒l leave with a clearer sense of what鈥檚 really going on and whether this way of working feels right for you.

I鈥檓 a UK-based, 麻豆原创-accredited therapist with over 8 years鈥� experience and more than 4,000 hours of clinical work.

I鈥檝e worked extensively with:

鈼� Anxiety and stress

鈼� Trauma and early emotional wounding

鈼� Relationship and attachment difficulties

鈼� Emotional shutdown and over-control

鈼� Long-standing patterns that don鈥檛 respond to 鈥渏ust talking about it鈥�

I also know this territory personally. I鈥檓 not interested in fixing you. I鈥檓 interested in helping you stop having to fight your own emotional system.

There is nothing wrong with you.

There is something unfinished.

And it can be worked through.