Karen Richardson , LMFT

Karen Richardson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 24 years of experience in behavioral health care. As an LMFT she is trained to work with individuals, couples, and families to address relationship, emotional, and systemic concerns. Her clinical background includes work with children, teens, and adults across inpatient and outpatient settings, providing individual, family, and group therapy in community mental health centers and through in-home services.

Throughout her career she has also served in settings such as criminal detention and family court service provision, and she has worked in an intensive outpatient program for dual diagnosis clients - people dealing with both substance use and mental health needs. She has developed specialized expertise in treating mood disorders, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency, child and parenting issues, and concerns related to divorce.

Karen earned 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 maintains a broad knowledge of grief, trauma, mood stability, and mental illness symptomology and treatment, and she can incorporate a Christian foundation into care when requested.

Therapeutic Approaches and Remote Care

Karen integrates several evidence-informed approaches to meet a range of client needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify their values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and take actions that align with what matters most - it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding patterns in relationships that stem from early attachments and works to improve connection, trust, and emotional regulation within families and couples. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Karen collaborates with each person to explore goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, adjusting techniques as needed so treatment fits the client rather than fitting the client to a method. This collaborative stance helps identify which approaches will be most helpful over time.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to receive care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule appointments around work, family, and other responsibilities, and they allow clients to work with licensed professionals and therapists from the locations that suit them best.