About Chelsea
Chelsea Richardson is a licensed clinical social worker who centers sessions on the person in front of her. She uses calm, straightforward language to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles. She brings 11 years of experience and works with common life problems like grief, bipolar mood shifts, and coping with big changes.
Chelsea focuses on helping people who are worn down by work, caregiving, or emotional overwhelm.
How Chelsea works
She offers support for trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, low self-esteem, and social anxiety. Parents and people facing family problems can expect practical strategies to improve communication and set healthier boundaries. Her approach blends client-centered listening with active tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
That means sessions include empathetic reflection alongside clear skills to manage intense feelings and unhelpful thought patterns. Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track progress between meetings. Chelsea describes therapy as a partnership.
She helps clients name what matters most and picks steps that fit their life and values. Appointments aim to be useful from the first few sessions, with skills people can try right away. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Colorado.
Chelsea offers therapy in English and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Chelsea lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Chelsea works with
The areas below are the ones Chelsea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. Online sessions use this approach to build trust and help clients feel heard, even when meeting by video or message. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and teaches concrete skills to change patterns of thinking and behavior, which works well in short exercises done between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Chelsea will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. That may mean starting with problem-focused tools and adding emotion-regulation skills later, or shifting emphasis as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues while phone sessions use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, day-to-day coaching, or a shorter way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family, and caregiving responsibilities.
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