About Tricia
Tricia Richards is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Washington. She focuses on stress and anxiety while also addressing depression, anger, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and trauma. Tricia writes plainly and works with clients to set clear goals they can reach.
She draws on twelve years of clinical experience and practical community work. Her practice grew from community mental health roles across Washington. That work exposed her to many life struggles, including abuse and neglect, reunification, and family conflict.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a systems-minded way of working that looks beyond symptoms to the roles people play in their relationships and daily routines. Tricia uses a client-centered, goal-oriented systems approach. She starts by asking what a person wants to change.
Then she helps pick realistic steps that fit the client’s life - school, work, family, and friends all matter in treatment. The focus is on building useful tools rather than on labeling problems. Her academic background includes a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University and bachelor degrees in Family Studies and Psychology from Central Washington University.
She brings both education and front-line experience to sessions. Outside work she is married and is a parent to twins. That day-to-day family life informs how she sees parenting strain, time pressures, and practical coping needs.
Tricia aims to help people find clearer ways to manage stress and get back to the things that matter most.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Tricia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage symptoms and build skills. One common approach is a systems-oriented, goal-focused method that looks at how work, family, and social roles affect stress and anxiety; this helps identify realistic behavior changes and daily routines to try. Another practical technique emphasizes skill-building for coping and emotion regulation so people leave sessions with tools to use between meetings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and preferences, then suggest methods that match those aims. Together they will track progress and make adjustments when something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets you use face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, progress notes, and between-session support without scheduling a full video meeting. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward clear goals.
Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly address?
What is her therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
In what formats are sessions available?
How does payment and cost work?
What do I need to do to get started?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.