About Richlyn
Richlyn Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 29 years of clinical practice in New York. She combines practical therapy methods with expressive tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people make steady changes in daily life.
She uses Attachment-Based approaches to look at how relationships shape emotion and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her toolkit for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
How Richlyn works
Mindfulness practices and Motivational Interviewing support coping, focus, and motivation during difficult transitions. Richlyn often adds music, movement, or art when those tools help someone express feelings that are hard to put into words. She pays attention to each person’s strengths and cultural background when planning sessions.
The result is a flexible mix of talk and creative methods that fit a person’s needs. Her clinical work addresses a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, parenting stress, body image, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people facing caregiving burdens, cancer, aging issues, and the fallout from disasters or major life changes.
Richlyn trained at Buffalo State College for her bachelor’s degree and earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Fordham University. She practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Richlyn lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Richlyn works with
The areas below are the ones Richlyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approach and online formats that fit your life
Richlyn uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, helping people improve connection and emotional regulation. She applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness techniques are also used to build present-moment awareness and reduce rumination.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. Together they may try different techniques and adjust them over time until something feels useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when a quieter space or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, brief reflections, and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or busy days while keeping the focus on steady progress and real-world coping skills.
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