About Kasimu-Richard
Kasimu-Richard Harley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 27 years of experience. He brings a long personal and professional path to his work, including service in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam Era and decades in outpatient and residential settings. He lives and practices in California and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance-related concerns.
Kasimu uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. He draws from client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practices.
How Kasimu-Richard works
Sessions are focused on concrete steps people can try between meetings to feel steadier and more capable. His background includes work with adolescents and adults in treatment programs and with students in educational settings. He has also provided stress-reduction coaching for teachers and school administrators.
That mix of clinical and school experience shapes how he approaches problems tied to learning, behavior, and work-life balance. Kasimu often focuses on relationship and family-related concerns such as communication, attachment, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues. He also addresses grief, abandonment, shame, isolation, and coping after disasters.
He describes his work as systemic and eclectic, blending approaches to fit each person’s situation. People who choose him can expect a collaborative style that values their life story and strengths. He aims to help clients recover a sense of agency and to “walk in your awesomeness” through realistic goals and steady support.
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What Kasimu-Richard works with
The areas below are the ones Kasimu-Richard selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Kasimu combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to support people online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building on a person’s strengths so they feel understood and able to try new behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress.He also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice their thoughts and body reactions without judgment, which can reduce rumination and increase calm during difficult moments. These methods are used in a collaborative way - the therapist and client decide together which approaches fit the person’s goals and day-to-day needs.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in, and messaging or live chat can suit brief updates, journaling support, or people who prefer written communication. This range of formats helps clients fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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