Dr. Nancy Kenyon Richardson
Support for parents and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nancy
Dr. Nancy Kenyon Richardson greets visitors with a straightforward, calm approach. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with things like addiction, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges.
Dr. Nancy uses practical tools and clear explanations so a worried parent can understand what to expect. She works from Vermont and conducts sessions in English.
Dr. Nancy holds a master's degree in psychology with a concentration in counseling and a Ph.D. in psychology with a concentration in addiction.
Background and approach
Her doctoral research examined recovery after medication-assisted treatment for opioid use and informed her views on long-term recovery. She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor - LCMHC - in Vermont (VT LCMHC 068.0134318). In sessions she often explains how the brain responds to trauma and how past experiences can keep people doing things they want to stop.
She draws on evidence-based methods and helps clients spot the patterns or "hooks" that keep problems active. This practical focus aims to make therapy feel useful from the start. Her background includes work on intimate partner violence, and she received an award for victim advocacy in 2012.
She combines that experience with ten years of clinical practice to support people facing grief, parenting struggles, compassion fatigue, and many other concerns listed earlier. Outside of work she has lived in Vermont for nearly 30 years and mentions family life and travel as important parts of her perspective.
Her style is collaborative and direct, inviting clients to notice progress and adjust course when needed.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space. It helps people feel heard and builds on their own strengths to pursue changes they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a client's goals, needs, and preferences. That makes therapy a collaborative process where approaches can be mixed or adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work between appointments. The variety of options supports different needs - some people prefer real-time conversation, others like shorter written check-ins - and allows flexibility while the therapist and client determine what helps most.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
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