About Tanisha
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns. Her style is compassionate and direct, with attention to what a person needs right now.
She aims to create a space where people can name painful feelings and work through them. Tanisha believes healing involves moving through emotions rather than avoiding them. Sessions are tailored to each person so conversations and goals match real life needs.
How Tanisha works
Her approach blends practical skills and emotional work. She uses client-centered methods to listen and build trust. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Tanisha has 13 years of clinical experience as a social worker in New York. Her background includes supporting people facing trauma, abuse, grief, addiction, and caregiver stress. She also helps with family of origin issues, blended family concerns, and adoption or foster care related struggles.
In sessions she often addresses communication problems, boundaries, codependency, and commitment worries. She works with people dealing with career stress, low self-esteem, anger, and life transitions. The work can include practical coping skills, emotional processing, and planning for changes.
Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows therapist availability.
Tanisha lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Tanisha works with
The areas below are the ones Tanisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Tanisha often uses Client-Centered Therapy to build trust and understand each person's experience. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and shaping sessions around what the person wants to work on. It is helpful when someone needs a steady, empathic space to talk through painful feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and develop coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress. For trauma-related symptoms, EMDR can be used to process distressing memories through structured protocols aimed at reducing their emotional charge.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tanisha collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match goals, comfort level, and the problems being addressed. She adjusts methods over time as needs change so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and hold longer conversations, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help make scheduling easier and therapy more accessible for busy lives.
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