Tanisha Richardson, LCSW

Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strains, and life changes. She focuses on practical support for parenting concerns, grief, low self-esteem, and coping with anger. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and move toward clearer choices. With 13 years of experience, she draws on several therapy methods to match a person’s needs. Sessions emphasize listening first, then building small, doable steps to ease overwhelming feelings. She frames healing as a process that often involves sitting with hard emotions rather than avoiding them. Tanisha uses client-centered conversations to understand each person’s priorities and values. She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. For people coping with trauma, she may offer EMDR as one of several approaches to reduce the power of painful memories. Her work also covers issues linked to family of origin, adoption and foster care, abandonment, codependency, and blended family problems. She supports people navigating divorce, separation, and communication or commitment struggles. Career stress, compassion fatigue, and addiction concerns are additional areas she addresses. Sessions are shaped to the individual. Tanisha aims to be respectful and compassionate while helping people identify steps they can try between meetings. She encourages people to make choices that fit their values and to keep going even when progress feels slow.

How certain approaches translate to online work

Tanisha often blends client-centered therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and building a plan that fits the person's values. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, low mood, and stress. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand strong feelings and how those feelings shape relationships. For trauma-related memories that continue to cause distress, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one option she may discuss as a way to reduce the intensity of painful memories. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, life demands, and comfort with different techniques. That choice can change over time as progress is made. Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats were not specified in the biography. In general, online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy can slot into a lunch break or evening routine.