About Nancy
Dr. Nancy Kenyon Richardson welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life. She names herself as Dr.
Nancy and writes in plain terms about helping people move past trauma, addiction, anxiety, and mood struggles. She aims to make the first step feel less daunting and to offer steady support as people find their footing. She brings about ten years of clinical experience and a background in psychology.
Background and approach
Her training includes a master’s degree in psychology with a counseling focus and a doctorate in psychology with research in addiction recovery. She holds the LCMHC credential and practices from Vermont. Dr.
Nancy often combines practical education about the brain with hands-on strategies. She explains why past events still trigger reactions and helps clients notice the “hooks” that pull them back into old patterns. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings, not just talk about problems.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including addiction, ADHD, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and caregiver strain. She also addresses related topics such as attachment, body image, chronic illness, and codependency when they affect daily functioning.
Outside of clinical work she has a long personal connection to New England and values plain conversation and curiosity. She aims to be direct, warm, and sometimes a little humorous when it helps move a session forward. If a client and she keep circling the same issue for years, she encourages honest feedback and change in approach.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and sense of pace. The therapist listens closely and helps people name their priorities so sessions follow what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at practical links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss options like client-centered methods and CBT, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on how a person responds. That collaborative process helps make sure the focus fits the client’s needs, goals, and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone can fit a quick check-in or work better when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or working through small moments between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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