About Stephen
Stephen Richardson is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical therapy with attention to faith when clients want that included. He has 10 years of experience and holds LCSW and LISW-CP credentials. Stephen practices in North Carolina and works with English-speaking clients, including people outside the U.S. through online sessions.
He uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work.
How Stephen works
Sessions focus on immediate concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, grief, and relationship and intimacy challenges. He also addresses parenting strain, sleeping and eating issues, anger, career stress, and attention-related concerns like ADHD.
Stephen often helps people who are navigating attachment and abandonment wounds, adoption and foster care questions, blended family adjustments, body image and self-esteem struggles, and communication or control issues. He is familiar with more specific challenges including autism and Asperger syndrome, BDSM and kink-related matters, and co-occurring or complex presentations. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
He listens for values and priorities and then offers tools grounded in evidence-based approaches. When faith matters to a client, he integrates those values into treatment in a respectful way without assuming it for everyone. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Stephen lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Stephen works with
The areas below are the ones Stephen 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small, meaningful actions toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people better understand and name emotions and use that clarity to improve important relationships and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then use techniques from these approaches to build a plan together. Sessions are tailored to what a person needs rather than a fixed formula.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for a full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions if bandwidth or cameras are a challenge, and live chat or text-based messaging for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, manage shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or continue work between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt tools and exercises for each format so progress continues even when meeting remotely.
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