About Tricia
Tricia Richards is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Washington. She draws on 12 years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Her style is direct and practical, focused on real goals people set together in sessions. She began in community mental health across two Washington regions.
That work exposed her to diverse situations like abuse and neglect, reunification, and a wide range of life stressors. Those early roles shaped a practice that attends to the whole of a person’s life rather than isolated symptoms.
Tricia uses a client-centered, goal-oriented systems approach. She helps clients name clear goals, then builds concrete tools to reach them.
Sessions consider the multiple systems that affect day-to-day life, such as work, school, family, and friendships. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Family Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Central Washington University, followed by a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University.
These studies inform a practical way of working that connects theory to everyday coping skills. Outside of work she is married and is a parent to twins, which informs her understanding of parenting strain and life transitions.
She aims to meet each person where they are and help them build usable strategies for daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Tricia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on systems and goal-setting. A systems approach looks at how work, family, school, and friends affect problems and asks what practical changes can reduce stress or conflict. This helps when relationship patterns, parenting strain, or family-of-origin issues play a role.She also works in a client-centered, goal-oriented way that breaks larger problems into clear steps. This approach is about choosing one or two concrete goals and building tools to meet them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, or coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options and tailor methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can evolve as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people keep face-to-face connection while meeting from home, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter real-time check-in, and text messaging allows brief notes and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make scheduling more flexible and can fit therapy into busy routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English