- Years in practice
- 12
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Georgia, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Shemeah
Shemeah Richardson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience supporting adults through hard life moments. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth work that helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting stress. She speaks plain language and offers steady support during change.
She draws on client-centered methods that put each person's goals first. That means conversations focus on what matters to the client and build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice their reactions and calm intense feelings. Narrative techniques are used to reframe difficult stories and find new meaning after trauma or loss.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about making a change or needs a clearer plan. Her background includes work with a wide range of life challenges such as trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and identity questions including LGBT and gender dysphoria issues.
She has experience supporting people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver strain, and aging concerns. She practices from Colorado and is licensed as an LPC in CO and GA. Sessions are offered in English and online formats are available.
She encourages a gentle first step - a brief match questionnaire and a scheduled session to see if it feels like the right fit.
What Shemeah works with
Everything Shemeah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shemeah helps people with.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shemeah lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Shemeah commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Client-centered work means the conversation follows what the person finds most important and builds on strengths to solve present problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify patterns of thinking that increase distress and tests small behavior changes to see what works. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce overwhelm and increase emotional awareness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shemeah will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and more frequent contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy parenting life while still using the same therapeutic tools described above.
Questions people ask about Shemeah
What concerns does this therapist address?
Shemeah works with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, relationship and family concerns, ADHD, LGBT and gender dysphoria questions, anger, and low self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on each person’s goals and strengths, with practical tools from CBT, mindfulness, narrative therapy, and motivational interviewing.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of professional experience helping people with a wide range of social and emotional struggles, including trauma, caregiving stress, and adoption or foster care issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Colorado and holds LPC credentials in Colorado and Georgia.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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