Richelle Kramer
Compassionate, practical therapy for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Richelle
Richelle Kramer is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices in Minnesota. Richelle focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and depression among other life challenges.
She aims to meet each person where they are and helps them take practical steps toward change. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth. She listens first, then works with clients to shape straightforward plans that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Richelle adapts conversation and techniques to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Over the years she has also worked with issues such as grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, substance concerns, and self-esteem problems. Additional areas of attention include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and postpartum depression.
This breadth reflects long clinical experience across many settings. Richelle uses practical tools from approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused thinking. Together with the client she identifies goals and practices that can be used between sessions.
The emphasis is on small, doable steps that build toward clearer routines and better coping. She offers sessions in English and provides online formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To begin a match, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule an appointment according to the therapist’s availability.
How Richelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with genuine respect and shaping goals that matter to the client. In practice this means sessions begin with what feels most urgent and move at the client’s pace, which can help with parenting stress and emotional overwhelm.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Richelle uses simple CBT tools to break big problems into small steps, useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system. Short practices and brief guided exercises are used to build steady habits that people can use during busy days.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Richelle discusses options with each person and blends methods based on their goals, values, and what feels most helpful. This collaborative tuning helps create realistic plans people can try between sessions.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other, while phone sessions can be used when video is not practical. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins and flexibility for quick questions or practice between meetings. These options support consistent contact and make it simpler to follow through on the plans developed in sessions.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Richelle
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