About Richlyn
Richlyn Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience based in New York. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style and focuses on helping people who struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addiction, and related concerns. Her sessions emphasize simple, usable tools.
She uses ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and build routine changes that stick.
Background and approach
Richlyn likes to include creative ways to express feelings when they help the process. Music, movement, or art may be used to open new ways of talking about hard experiences. She centers each session on the person in front of her and adapts tools to fit individual needs and preferences.
Her background includes work across many cultural communities in New York City. That experience shaped a broad view of what helps people cope with trauma, loss, relationship strain, parenting stress, and medical or caregiving burdens. Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills and practical habits for daily life.
Richlyn describes therapy as a collaborative effort. Together with a client she sets clear goals, checks progress, and adjusts the plan when needed. The focus is on steady, manageable steps toward better functioning and greater emotional balance.
Approach, online care, and what to expect
Richlyn commonly integrates client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely, following the client's lead, and building a trusting working relationship. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and uses step-by-step strategies to change those patterns and improve day-to-day functioning.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people stay grounded and notice reactions in the moment. Mindfulness can be useful for anxiety, stress, and managing attention challenges like ADHD by training simple awareness and steadying routines. Deciding which mix of approaches to use is part of the early work in therapy; she will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options let people access therapy around work, caregiving, or other daily demands and adjust the format as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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