About Kasimu-Richard
Kasimu-Richard Harley brings 27 years of clinical experience to his work as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. He draws on a life shaped by service, family roles, and a long career helping people overcome emotional barriers.
Background and approach
He speaks plainly and aims to make therapy useful and down-to-earth for busy caregivers and parents. He spent many years as a mental health therapist in outpatient and residential settings, supporting adolescents and adults with substance use and mental health concerns.
He also worked in schools to address social and emotional obstacles that get in the way of learning. That experience informs a practical approach to everyday problems.
His style blends client-centered care with cognitive tools and motivational interviewing. He teaches mindfulness skills to reduce stress and improve focus.
Sessions are intended to be collaborative, with concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Kasimu-Richard often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and addictions.
He also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and career transitions. Additional interests include issues around abandonment, attachment, blended family dynamics, and caregiving stress.
He frames growth as a return to the strengths people were born with. Therapy sessions typically include straightforward conversation, practical coping strategies, and skills practice.
He invites clients to work toward clearer communication, better emotional balance, and renewed self-worth.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own direction. In practice this means sessions begin with open conversation to identify what matters most and build on individual strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during life changes.
Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus. These exercises are taught in short, practical ways that clients can use during a busy day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching prompts, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English