About Stephen
Stephen Richardson is a licensed clinical social worker who brings ten years of experience to his practice in North Carolina. He combines practical talk therapy with attention to spiritual concerns for people who want to include faith in their healing process. Stephen uses clear, down-to-earth language and a steady, respectful manner in sessions.
He focuses on stress and anxiety as part of a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar mood issues, addictions, trauma and grief.
Background and approach
He also helps with relationship and intimacy challenges, self-esteem, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and work or career stress. Additional interests include ADHD, codependency, attachment and abandonment issues, and body image concerns. Stephen draws on several therapeutic approaches to match the needs of each person.
He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clarify values and build flexible coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. Client-centered principles guide sessions so people feel heard and understood.
He holds social work degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Winthrop University and maintains licenses as an LCSW in North Carolina and an LISW-CP in South Carolina. Stephen offers practical steps in therapy, helps set realistic goals, and supports gradual progress over time.
Sessions aim to address mental, emotional, and spiritual concerns together when that is important to the person. He works with people who want help managing life transitions, healing from past hurts, and building clearer relationships with themselves and others.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Stephen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps that match their values while learning to live with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try options, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy makes regular care easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible ways to share between sessions or when writing feels more comfortable. These formats support consistent steps toward goals while offering scheduling flexibility and access from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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