Licensed to practice in New York and accepts 12 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Depression, LGBTQ and 9 more.
Richard Higgins
(he/him)
About me
I like to approach therapy like a journey that we take together- we work together to chart our course, to lean on one another in working through various challenges we encounter, to celebrate the successes and to hopefully reach the place you would like to see yourself in the end. I typically work to integrate discussions from a feeling and cognitive level to understand how we begin to untangle some of the challenges you might be experiencing.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
My approach is to begin with understanding what made you reach out for support. Then I ask you to help me understand all the various forces that can together in leading to this point. An essential element is also setting the stage for what our relationship will look like over time and arriving at our plan to begin change. Some aspect of our time will also be spent with some basic coping skills to begin symptoms from a basic level.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I think my strength as a therapist lies in my ability to connect and understand your experience in a very human and direct way. I rely on my use of humor as a way to relate, to break tension, and to create perspective in difficult moments. I always try to reinforce that I may say things that are difficult and painful to hear, but this is what we need to do to create change.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I think the best therapeutic relationships come from clients who are motivated to change what is not serving them in their lives through directly and non defensively examining their thinking, their feelings and their behaviors. I believe the most important moments in therapy come in moments that are enlightening, uncomfortable and hopefully accompanied with some comforting humor- being capable of laughing at oneself in a safe and grounded place is healing in itself.
Specialties
Top specialties
Anxiety
Depression
LGBTQ
Other specialties
Anger Management
Coping Skills
Grief
Life Transitions
Men's Issues
Older Adults
Self Esteem
Sex Addiction
Substance Misuse
Identifies as
LGBTQ
Man
White
Serves ages
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Licensed in
New York
Accepts
Amerihealth Administrators
Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage
Arlo
Cash - $150 per session
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
Evernorth
GTEB
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
Tufts Health/Cigna
Location
Virtual
My treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
The mind is constantly taking in information, processing it, and drawing conclusions- by being able to understand your own thinking patterns, label what’s functional and what drives poor decisions, maladaptive behaviors, you can then start to make change as a first step.
Interpersonal
Relationships are the foundation of most aspects of our lives- being able to use the therapy relationship as a vehicle for examining how we interact and respond to others is a great way to cultivate change.
Eclectic
We use a range of perspectives to understand how we all develop into the person we’ve become- looking at how early childhood experiences laid the building blocks, how learning established patterns in thinking, and how from this we developed our own patterns of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies. Therapy then uses this information to begin creating change to have the experience and life we are striving towards.
2 ratings with written reviews
August 4, 2026
It was only our 1st session - Richard listened and asked great questions at all the right moments. It felt he was genuinely interested in helping me versus just running the clock till times up. He also went over time so I felt we covered a lot of ground on our 1st call. Looking forward to the next one already.
Verified client, age 45-54
August 1, 2026
Great listener and asks really good questions to make you think.