Kimberly Richards
Experienced LCSW focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LCSW, LMSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Richards is a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan with 11 years of experience. She holds an LCSW and an LMSW and has spent over a decade helping people navigate common and complex mental health concerns. Her work focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and other overwhelming feelings.
She meets people where they are with a warm, interactive style. Sessions tend to be respectful and grounded, with a focus on what a person wants to change.
Background and approach
Kimberly draws on cognitive behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set small, doable goals. Her practice supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, addiction, relationship and family concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Additional interests include adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and recovery from domestic violence or past abuse. Kimberly combines practical skill-building with attention to each person’s values and priorities. She works collaboratively to create plans that fit daily life.
Over time clients learn new ways to manage emotions, communicate needs, and handle stress. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Kimberly is licensed in Michigan as LCSW (AZ LCSW LCSW-22012) and LMSW (MI LMSW 6801093102).
How Kimberly’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. It creates space for someone to describe their goals and values while the therapist offers encouragement and reflection to help them move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often includes learning simple tools to reframe unhelpful thoughts and to practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depression.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find the motivation to make a change. It uses respectful conversations to clarify why change matters and to build confidence for taking next steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will discuss options, listen to goals and preferences, and together decide which methods fit best. That makes therapy a collaborative effort rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to check in between appointments, and to keep momentum when life gets hectic. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods effectively for remote care, focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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