About Shari
Dr. Shari Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience based in New York. She draws on her clinical background to help people facing relationships, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress.
She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Dr. Richardson aims to be a steady partner through difficult life changes.
Her work often centers on concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family issues, and family-of-origin patterns.
How Shari works
She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, grief, addictions, and issues around intimacy and commitment. Clients bring a mix of immediate problems and long-running struggles, and she adapts support to each person’s situation. Dr.
Richardson combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused methods to help people change unhelpful patterns. She encourages clear goals and small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. Motivational approaches are used when people want to find the drive to make different choices.
Trauma-focused techniques are applied when past hurts affect current life. She listens for how early losses, abandonment, or family problems shape today's reactions. Then she helps clients build new habits and stronger ways of relating to others.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions focus on specific problems, practical strategies, and steady support. People who want a collaborative, goal-oriented process that still honors emotion may find her approach helpful.
Shari lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shari works with
The areas below are the ones Shari 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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the client's perspective at the center of work. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping sessions around their goals and values. This approach helps people who need understanding and a respectful space to think things through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses concrete tools like thought records and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhealthy patterns. That makes it useful for people who want clear techniques they can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust based on what helps most. This collaborative process welcomes input and adapts over time.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain therapy while balancing work, family, and travel.
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