Tanisha Richardson, LCSW
New York · 13 years in practice
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
License and registration
- LCSW, New York
- 094930 · expires October 2028
- NPI
- 1922452556 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tanisha
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She offers steady, straightforward support for relationship strains, parenting worries, grief, addiction concerns, and low self-esteem. Sessions are practical and focused on what matters to each person.
She draws on person-centered methods that keep the client's goals in focus. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is included among the approaches she uses for trauma work. Tanisha keeps plans simple and tailored. Early sessions usually clarify what the client most wants to change and which strategies fit day-to-day life.
She balances talking through feelings with small, doable steps to try between meetings. Her background includes more than a decade of clinical practice in New York as an LCSW. That experience shaped an emphasis on practical tools for handling anger, compassion fatigue, and parenting stress.
She also supports people working through abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, and family-of-origin concerns. Clients can expect a warm, respectful tone and an emphasis on personal agency. Tanisha aims to help people move through pain rather than around it, so they can find clearer meaning and calmer routines.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on real change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tanisha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tanisha names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's priorities. Online sessions let the therapist and client build trust through regular conversation and reflection, helping people clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. In remote sessions these skills are practiced together and assigned as short exercises between meetings to build real-world habits. EMDR is used as one of the trauma-focused options she offers to help process distressing memories. When appropriate, elements of EMDR can be adapted to online formats so clients can work through traumatic material with guidance. Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That process may include trying an approach for several sessions and adjusting based on how well it fits. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging helps with brief reflections or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and busy schedules.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What issues does this therapist commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anger, coping with life changes, addictions, relationships, family problems, grief, self-esteem, career questions, and depression.
How would you describe her therapy style?
The approach is client-centered and practical. Sessions mix listening and emotional processing with specific coping strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and emotionally-focused work.
What is her clinical background?
She has 13 years of professional experience and has worked with people dealing with trauma, parenting and adoption or foster care concerns, abandonment, and family-of-origin issues.
Where is this therapist based and what are her credentials?
She is licensed in New York as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and practices from that location.
Can someone see her if English is not their first language?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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