About Tanisha
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, and relationship problems. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel approachable for someone under pressure. Her style centers on respect, sensitivity, and steady support.
With 13 years of experience, Tanisha draws on several methods to meet different needs. She uses client-centered conversations to follow what matters most to each person. She also brings cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally focused strategies to strengthen connections and process feelings.
Background and approach
Tanisha often works with people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She addresses attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues as well as family of origin problems and blended family dynamics. She also helps with body image, codependency, commitment and communication difficulties.
In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She tailors discussion and plans to each person’s situation. She encourages honest feeling and steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she supports growth through both insight and concrete strategies.
Tanisha practices in New York as an LCSW with a straightforward, empathetic approach. Her work aims to help people find a way through painful moments toward more stable daily functioning and clearer choices.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s lead, listening closely, and shaping sessions around what matters most. It helps when someone needs validation, clearer priorities, and a steady supportive conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that get in the way; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses traumatic memories by using structured processing techniques to reduce the intensity of distressing reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try approaches that fit a person’s needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether more emotion-focused work, structured skill-building, or trauma processing is the best path forward.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is close to an in-person conversation and supports visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat or messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, keeping momentum between sessions, or fitting support into a busy day. These options offer flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English