About Tanisha
Tanisha Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting pressures, and relationship problems. She writes in a respectful, down-to-earth way and focuses on helping clients feel and move through hard emotions rather than avoiding them. Tanisha works from New York and brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions.
She uses somatic approaches to help people notice and work with how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered work to shape the conversation around each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps when thoughts and behaviors are getting in the way of daily functioning. Tanisha believes recovery often requires sitting with painful feelings so people can heal and move forward.
She tailors conversations and plans to the individual needs of each person she sees. The goal is practical change that fits a person’s life and values. Sessions include a mix of talking, grounding practices, and steps you can try between meetings.
She supports people coping with grief, career strain, compassion fatigue, and changes like separation or adoption concerns. Tanisha also helps with issues such as codependency, communication problems, and body image. Her approach is collaborative and steady.
She aims to create a space where people can name what’s happening, try new ways of responding, and build stronger coping skills over time.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work focuses on how emotions and stress show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided attention to breathing, posture, and simple movement so clients notice patterns and learn grounding practices that reduce reactivity. This approach can be helpful for trauma responses, anxiety, and stress-related symptoms.Client-centered therapy centers the client’s own priorities and pace. In remote sessions the therapist listens deeply, reflects concerns back, and helps people set goals that feel doable. This method supports people who need acceptance, clarity, and steady emotional support while making decisions or coping with change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online work includes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral experiments between sessions to test new ways of coping. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and habit change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and may adapt techniques as therapy progresses.
Online formats - video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They let people practice skills in their real-world settings, check in between sessions, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English