Karen Richardson, LMFT

Karen Richardson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than two decades of experience in behavioral health. She uses clear, practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, addiction concerns, and relationship or parenting struggles. Her style is straightforward and grounded in everyday problems. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings and in community mental health. That background includes individual and group therapy, in-home services, and work inside criminal detention and family court settings. She has also provided care in an intensive outpatient program for people addressing both substance use and mental health needs. Karen draws on multiple approaches to tailor care to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when helpful. Her training includes a bachelor’s degree from Furman University, a master’s degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a post-master’s certificate in marriage and family therapy from the University of Louisville. She holds LMFT credentials in South Carolina and Florida. Karen can address grief, trauma, mood instability, and co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns. She can also integrate a Christian perspective when requested. Sessions are offered in English and provided from Florida.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Karen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors with practical exercises that reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people shift how they relate to difficult feelings while clarifying personal values to guide action.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy when relationship patterns or early bonds affect current struggles. That work looks at how past connections shape trust, communication, and closeness, and aims to build safer ways of relating to others. Finding the right approach is part of the process; she works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a single technique on everyone.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for in-depth work and nonverbal communication, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.