Cindy Richardson, LPC

Cindy Richardson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common life stresses such as anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and anger. She also helps people dealing with career questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.

Her approach centers on practical, talk-based work that helps people notice patterns and try different responses. She uses client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on the person in front of her. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage strong emotions.

Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone is weighing change, and solution-focused work supports brief planning and steps forward. Sessions tend to concentrate on clear goals and small, doable changes rather than long, abstract plans.

With many years of experience, she is used to working with overlapping challenges such as substance use and mood concerns, or grief experienced alongside chronic illness. She helps people sort priorities and create practical strategies for everyday life.

People who come for help with anger will find concrete skill-building mixed with reflective conversation. The emphasis is on learning new ways to notice triggers, shift reactions, and practice different behaviors in daily situations.

How Cindy’s approaches translate to online work