Karisha Richards

Karisha Richards, LPC, welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She helps clients untangle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that came from painful life events. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to create straightforward, doable steps so people can feel steadier in daily life.

With 15 years of practice, Karisha mixes practical talk therapy with spiritual reflection when clients want that element. She listens closely, asks questions that get to the heart of the problem, and works with each person to set clear goals. She uses tools such as active listening, paraphrasing, and reflection during sessions.

Outside of conversation, Karisha often provides handouts, short videos, and book suggestions for people to look over between meetings. Those resources are meant to extend learning and give concrete actions to try. She names unhelpful patterns, then helps people replace them with more realistic habits and beliefs.

Her approach draws on Client-Centered ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Jungian perspectives, and mindfulness practices. Spiritual themes are part of the work when a client requests them, with attention to how faith influences meaning and motivation. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Karisha works as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. Conversations take place in English. People who are outside the United States are not supported for online sessions through her practice.

How Karisha blends talk therapy and practical tools online

Karisha commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when working with stress, anxiety, anger, or patterns that keep repeating. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and sleep issues. DBT teaches skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with strong moods, impulsive behavior, and relationship problems.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person’s goals and perspective. That approach supports a collaborative plan where the therapist and client choose techniques together based on needs and preferences. Figuring out which methods fit usually happens in the first few sessions and can change over time.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as current options are noted on the therapist’s scheduling page. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a weekday break, avoid travel time, or use shorter check-ins when a full session isn’t possible. Many people find that having session resources like handouts and short videos shared between meetings helps keep progress moving forward.