About Stephen
Stephen Richardson, LCSW, LISW-CP, is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience. He practices in North Carolina and offers counseling that attends to mental, emotional, and spiritual concerns. Stephen aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, ADHD, and relationship challenges while honoring their faith when it is important to them.
He uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Stephen listens, helps clients name what’s most troubling, and works with them to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
He often blends talk therapy with exercises clients can try between meetings to build new habits and skills. His background includes social work degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Winthrop University. Over a decade he has worked with people facing grief, trauma, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, and career stress.
He also supports clients dealing with identity and intimacy-related concerns. Stephen draws from several approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. He adapts these methods to each person’s needs and faith perspective rather than following a single formula.
Sessions are offered in English and Stephen accepts international clients. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule. To begin, a short questionnaire is used to match clients and then appointments are scheduled according to availability.
Approaches you can use online with a therapist
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifies personal values to guide action. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and on practicing new, more helpful responses; it often helps with anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and patterns in close relationships to improve connection and reduce repeated conflicts.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs and faith perspective, and adjust as progress unfolds. That collaborative approach helps shape a plan that feels practical and relevant for everyday life.
Online therapy can make it easier to get regular support. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction when schedules or travel make in-person meetings hard. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, parenting, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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