About Tanisha
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety and overwhelming stress. She listens with care and guides practical steps to handle daily struggles. Tanisha speaks plainly and stays focused on what a person needs now.
With 13 years of experience, Tanisha draws on several approaches to match each person's situation. She uses client-centered methods to follow the client's lead and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Tanisha also uses elements of emotionally-focused work to support stronger emotional understanding in relationships. For trauma-related concerns she draws on strategies that address distressing memories and reactions. She adapts pacing and techniques to each person's comfort level.
Sessions move at a realistic pace and aim for concrete changes. Tanisha helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and talk through setbacks. She emphasizes feeling emotions rather than avoiding them while also building skills to cope.
Based in New York, Tanisha supports people wrestling with grief, parenting strains, career stress, addiction, and family-of-origin issues. She also addresses body image, attachment questions, and challenges after separation or divorce. Her style is respectful and compassionate, with attention to practical tools and emotional work.
Tanisha works with clients to develop plans that fit their lives and priorities. She encourages steady progress and honest conversation.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Tanisha uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person, giving space for clients to set the agenda and be heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify the thoughts and habits that keep anxiety and low mood stuck, and offers practical experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.For clients with relationship distress or intense emotions, she uses emotionally-focused techniques to help name feelings and change interaction patterns. These approaches can help with anxiety, trauma reactions, parenting strain, and problems that start in family relationships. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process; the therapist and client decide together which approaches to try based on goals and preference.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversational work and emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, coaching-style support, or shorter progress updates between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to maintain regular contact and momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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