Rica McKingley

Rica earned a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Messiah University. She offers individual counseling with compassion, understanding, and reliance on the wonderful counselor who is Christ Jesus. Rica appreciates using a person-centered and strengths-based approach in counseling, celebrating resiliency in her clients, while exploring emotions in a non-judgmental safe space. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to work hand-in-hand with clients to learn healthy decision-making and recognize how thoughts and perceptions affect the way they feel and behave. Rica is passionate about mental wellness and believes that with the right tools and emotional support, individuals can begin to find hope instead of suffering in silence.

She is active in several counseling associations, such as the American Counseling Association, Mu Chi Alpha Honor Society, and the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, and serves on the board of Africa Health Outreach.

Rica loves spending time with her family, traveling, enjoying nature, watching documentaries, eating great food, dancing to Afrobeats, and listening to worship music. “My personal experience with mental health and therapy has been the greatest cause of my pursuit in this field. My lifelong hope is to help in the healing journey through talk therapy”.

Rica offers in-person counseling sessions at the CCM Easton and Wilkes-Barre locations as well as virtual sessions.