Tricia Richards
Calm, practical therapy for family life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tricia
Tricia Richards is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Washington. She uses a client-centered, goal-oriented systems approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Tricia keeps sessions practical and focused on clear priorities the client sets.
She began her career in community mental health across two areas of Washington. That work brought experience with anxiety, depression, abuse and neglect, reunification, parenting difficulties, loss, and other life stresses.
Background and approach
Those settings taught her to work with people facing complex, overlapping challenges. Tricia believes people usually do the best they can with the resources they have. Often the work in therapy is about adding tools and changing patterns so daily life feels more manageable.
She pays attention to systems around a person - such as school, work, family, and friends - when shaping goals. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Family Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Central Washington University. She completed a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Seattle Pacific University.
With 12 years of clinical experience, Tricia blends practical strategies and steady support. She also brings personal perspective as a married parent of twins. She aims to make sessions clear, direct, and focused on the changes each person or family wants to see.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Tricia uses evidence-based techniques that are straightforward and practical. She often emphasizes systems-oriented methods that look at the roles of family, work, school, and friends in someone’s life to identify patterns and targets for change. This approach helps when relationship dynamics, parenting, or family of origin issues are part of the problem.She also uses client-centered, goal-focused strategies that prioritize what the person or family wants to change. Those methods break larger concerns into small, doable steps and teach tools to manage stress, anxiety, anger, and everyday life challenges.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Tricia will work together with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and circumstances. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, and family schedules and allow steady contact when in-person visits are difficult. The varied options support follow-up, skill practice between sessions, and flexible ways to check in without traveling.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point