Kimberly Richards , LCSW, LMSW

Kimberly Richards is a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan. She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials and brings eleven years of outpatient mental health experience. Her work focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, depression, and many life transitions. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming.

Kimberly uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods in sessions. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns and try small experiments that can reduce distress. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help people find their own strengths and next steps. Trauma-focused tools support recovery from past abuse and loss.

Her background includes supporting people coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, bipolar concerns, ADHD, caregiver stress, and issues tied to adoption or blended families. She also addresses anger, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness work. Kimberly works with adults facing both sudden change and long-term struggles.

In sessions she favors an interactive, warm style. Conversations are practical and paced to match what each person needs. She listens first, then offers skills, feedback, and small homework tasks when helpful. The goal is steady progress people can notice between visits.

Therapy is offered through several formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after completing a brief matching questionnaire.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. In practice this means the therapist listens actively, reflects what she hears, and helps people name what matters most so goals come from the client rather than a preset plan.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tests small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing past harmful experiences and building coping skills to reduce symptoms related to abuse or loss. It combines careful pacing with concrete tools to manage upsetting memories and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or blend methods with the client. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person's life and priorities.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers faster check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.