Tanisha Richardson, LCSW

Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on helping people navigate midlife challenges, stress, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely, offering steady support while clients sort through painful feelings and discover next steps. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.

With 13 years of clinical experience, Tanisha uses a flexible approach that is shaped by each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on what matters most to the client. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns in thinking and change unhelpful habits.

Tanisha brings trauma-informed care into sessions, including approaches that can help with painful memories and overwhelming reactions. She helps people process grief, anger, and the fallout from relationship or family stress. She also works with those dealing with addiction, caregiver strain, and issues connected to adoption or foster care.

In sessions she aims to tailor dialogue and plans to each person’s situation. That can mean a mix of emotional processing, practical coping skills, and goal-focused work for career or parenting concerns. She encourages clients to face difficult emotions as part of healing and to identify concrete steps forward.

People who choose her can expect patient listening, clear feedback, and collaborative planning. She supports clients as they move through hard moments toward fuller engagement in life.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard and clarifies goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills for changing patterns that keep someone stuck. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people notice and work with their emotional responses to improve relationships and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll try different methods and adjust the plan based on what is helping and what is not.

If you are considering online work, confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins between appointments. They can also accommodate shorter or longer sessions depending on need, and make it simpler to continue work during job transitions or while managing caregiving duties.