Karen Richardson , LMFT

Karen Richardson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 24 years of experience in behavioral health care, supporting children, teens, and adults across a wide range of clinical settings. She has provided individual, family, and group therapy in both inpatient and outpatient programs, worked through community mental health centers and in-home therapy, and served in arenas such as criminal detention, family court service provision, and an intensive outpatient program for clients with co-occurring substance use and mental health needs.

She holds 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. Her clinical background includes specialized experience treating mood disorders, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency, child and parenting issues, and challenges related to divorce. Karen’s work also encompasses grief, trauma, mood stability, and a broad understanding of mental illness symptomatology and treatment.

She integrates approaches that attend to relationships and attachment, and she can address concerns from a Christian foundation when requested. Karen is licensed as an LMFT and maintains experience supporting people through stress, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting and blended family concerns, and many other life challenges. She is not currently accepting new clients.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Family and Individual Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take committed steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions where shifting perspective and building psychological flexibility are goals.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relational patterns formed in early life and how they show up in current relationships. This approach can help with intimacy issues, family and attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and relationship healing after loss or separation.

Karen approaches treatment collaboratively, recognizing that finding the right method is part of the therapeutic process. She works with clients to match therapeutic tools to individual needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling and participation from diverse locations. These modalities make it easier to maintain continuity of care through life changes and daily demands while working with licensed professionals and therapists who tailor approaches to each person’s situation.