About Ethel
Ethel Richard-Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker who brings practical support and steady guidance to people facing major life challenges. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and finding workable steps forward.
She has six years of experience as an LCSW in Texas and has worked with many concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and substance use. Ethel also supports people struggling with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and person-focused. She listens first, then helps clients set clear, achievable goals. Techniques vary from exploring personal stories to focusing on concrete changes that fit daily life.
People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what works best. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to your priorities and pace. Ethel helps clients consider career and life-purpose questions, work through grief or caregiving stress, and manage mood or attention concerns.
She aims to make therapy a useful part of everyday life. If someone wants a therapist who is direct but caring, she may be a good match.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship. The therapist follows your lead, helps you clarify what matters, and supports choices that fit your life. Motivational Interviewing is a practical, goal-oriented method that helps people find their own reasons to change and stay motivated through small steps. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and invites new ways to view those stories so difficult experiences have less power.Finding the right approach usually happens together. Ethel will talk with you about your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so treatment matches what you actually want to address.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is inconvenient. Live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or crisis coping between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep work moving forward from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English