About Richlyn
Richlyn Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience in mental health care. She practices in New York and offers practical, person-focused therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and related concerns. Sessions emphasize everyday skills and emotional understanding rather than jargon.
She uses a mix of approaches that fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices support grounding and reducing overwhelm. Motivational Interviewing aids in finding personal reasons to make change. Richlyn also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build a respectful, collaborative relationship.
She incorporates music, movement, and art when those methods help someone express feelings or try new coping tools. The style is practical and adaptable. Clients work on improving sleep, managing anger, navigating relationship stress, and building self-esteem.
She also supports people coping with trauma, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and life transitions. Conversations focus on clear, usable steps that fit daily life. Richlyn trained at Fordham University for her Master of Social Work and holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Buffalo State College.
Her background includes long experience serving people from diverse cultural and belief backgrounds in New York City. That history informs a flexible, culturally aware approach.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Richlyn commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in session. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, respect, and helping the person guide the goals and pace of therapy.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple breathing and grounding practices that reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. These approaches help with sleep problems, panic, rumination, and coping with life changes in straightforward ways.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, comfort, and what feels useful in daily life. That collaborative decision can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try approaches that work for the individual's routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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