About Laurie
Laurie Richardson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people work through relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, stress, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and aims to help people feel heard and clearer about next steps.
Background and approach
She returned to graduate school midlife after careers in teaching, art, and design. That varied background influences how she meets people in therapy.
She often uses art, writing, and creative activities alongside conversation to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
Sessions may include gentle questions, mindfulness exercises, short activities, and practical steps to try between meetings. Laurie focuses on what a person notices about themselves and builds on those observations to create change.
Laurie works from principles of client-centered care, narrative thinking, solution-focused planning, mindfulness, and existential reflection. These approaches shape how she helps people make meaning, manage stress, and set achievable goals.
She has five years of clinical experience and holds a California LMFT license. Laurie offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
She also accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How Laurie blends talk, creativity, and online care
Laurie draws on client-centered work and mindfulness in online sessions. Client-centered work means the session centers on what the person brings and on listening to their experience; it helps with self-esteem, decision making, and finding practical next steps. Mindfulness practices involve simple attention exercises and short meditations to manage stress, sleep problems, and anxiety.She also uses solution-focused ideas to set small, concrete goals between sessions and narrative approaches to help people reframe difficult stories about themselves. Together these methods help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and build on what works. Laurie will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and preferences rather than insisting on a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other for fuller interaction, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when reflecting in writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to add therapy into a routine and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English