slave rick

slave Rick recently retired from a 30- year career with the Federal government and expanded his practice as a licensed psychotherapist within the BDSM community. In addition to assisting his clients in achieving more satisfying lives, he seeks to raise consciousness within the therapeutic community by depathologizing BDSM in order that “vanilla” psychotherapists might more effectively work with their own kinky clients.

Aside from his work as a therapist, slave Rick is a part-time college instructor, a massage therapist and a retired Science of Mind practitioner. he has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics of M/s and D/s relationships at dozens of conferences and leather events throughout North America. In 2010, he delivered the endnote address at Southwest Leather Conference and, in 2011, he delivered the keynote address at Leather Reign.

In 2008 slave Rick was honored to receive both the Southwest Leather Conference “Leatherman’s Heart Award” and the “slave Heart Award” from the Master/slave Conference. More recently, he was proud to participate as one of the subjects of “Ask the Man Who Owns him”, a book on gay male M/s relationships by david stein that received the 2010 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Literary Award from the National Leather Association. In 2011, slave Rick self published “The Guppy and the Willow”, a fable for adults clothed as a children’s story encouraging the removal of our “masks” in order to be Real.

First and foremost, however, he is by grace in service to his beloved Master.