About Richlyn
Richlyn Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and life changes. She practices from New York and combines practical talk with creative methods when helpful. Richlyn uses plain language in sessions and focuses on what people want to change.
Her background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Buffalo State College and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University.
Background and approach
Years of practice in New York City exposed her to many cultures and belief systems. That variety shaped a flexible, whole-person approach to care. Richlyn draws from attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered work.
She mixes expressive tools such as music, movement, or art when those methods help someone describe feelings or make a change. Sessions focus on building coping skills, managing mood and anxiety, addressing trauma and abuse, and supporting recovery from addictions. She also helps people with sleep problems, parenting concerns, self-esteem, and navigating major transitions.
Richlyn aims to build a respectful working relationship and to tailor steps to each person’s goals. She invites people to name what “wholeness” looks like to them and helps plan realistic steps toward those goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. In short sessions this can help people notice patterns in how they connect and respond to others, and then try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Online work can include simple homework, thought records, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety or lift low mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches skills to notice the present moment with less judgment. Online sessions can include guided breathing or short practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep or stress management.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made together as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or an on-camera conversation feels too intense. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, questions between sessions, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English