Latanya Richardson, LMSW

Latanya Richardson is an LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker) with ten years of experience providing client-centered mental health care focused on family preservation and individual healing. She combines crisis response work with ongoing therapeutic support, drawing on years of conducting assessments, delivering direct interventions, and helping people navigate difficult moments. Her background includes responding to community crises and collaborating with local law enforcement to better evaluate situations, create safety plans, and implement crisis prevention strategies that support long-term stability.

Her approach is holistic and tailored to each person's circumstances. She emphasizes trauma-informed care and adapts methods to fit the needs of individuals, parents, and families facing challenges like mood disorders, trauma, relationship strain, and caregiver stress. Latanya integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness, Emotion-Focused Therapy to explore and express emotions, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to define goals and map concrete steps forward.

Whether working with families, supporting someone through loss or end-of-life concerns, or helping a person reclaim self-esteem and purpose, she aims to create practical, strengths-based plans that foster resilience. Latanya focuses on clear assessment, collaborative planning, and targeted interventions so individuals and families receive the support they need to move forward.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Latanya Richardson draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and emotionally-focused therapy to guide online sessions in ways that fit each person’s needs. Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals and experiences, offering empathic listening and collaborative pacing to strengthen self-understanding and personal growth. CBT focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to depression, anxiety, and mood difficulties, helping clients develop practical coping skills and new ways of responding.

Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on recognizing, expressing, and shifting emotional responses to improve relationships and relieve emotional pain. These approaches can be blended as appropriate to address family challenges, trauma, parenting stress, and struggles with self-esteem. Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process; Latanya works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods best match their concerns, goals, and preferences.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit care into busy lives. Sessions can happen by video call, over the phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging, making it easier to access consistent support from Michigan. This range of options helps clients maintain momentum between appointments and engage in therapy in the format that feels most practical and effective for them.