About Laurie
Laurie Richardson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away.
Laurie moved into therapy after years working in education and the arts, including preschool and middle school teaching, art instruction, and design. That background shapes her approach - she uses creative activities alongside conversation when it helps a person express themselves.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises, art, or brief meditations to ground the work. Her style is client-centered and conversational. She listens closely, asks clear questions, and tailors each plan to the person in front of her.
Laurie frames goals together with clients and emphasizes small, achievable changes that build toward larger shifts over time. Laurie draws on mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help people manage anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and addictions. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe painful stories about themselves and their relationships.
The work is practical and tried in everyday life between sessions. With five years of clinical experience and a California LMFT credential, Laurie offers a supportive space for people coping with depression, intimacy issues, caregiver stress, and other concerns. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How her approaches fit online therapy
Laurie uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's priorities and strengths. That means sessions begin with listening and building a plan that reflects the client's needs, whether the issue is anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach breathing and attention skills that help reduce stress and improve sleep. Mindfulness exercises are simple to practice during a video call or as short exercises between check-ins.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with clients to try techniques and notice what helps. Together they choose practices and goals that match the client's life, preferences, and progress rather than sticking rigidly to a single method.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines. Video calls allow face-to-face work and guided exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework sharing, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options increase flexibility and can help people maintain regular contact with a licensed professional while managing daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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