Lori Richardson
Clinical Social Worker
Asheville, NC | Telehealth
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About Lori Richardson, MSW, LCSW
Lori is motivated by the transformative potential in each person’s life. Throughout her career, she has gravitated towards guiding healing paths, combined with a prevailing interest in neuroscience and powerful therapies that supercharge positive feelings. At heart, she sees herself as a teacher, helping her clients learn to rewire their own neural pathways. For many years now, Ms. Richardson has witnessed daily how these therapies allow people to transform lifelong thought, identity or behavioral patterns into new ways of thinking, feeling and being. She often finds that her clients experience positive changes in their lives that previously seemed impossible and unreachable to them. Her work is informed by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution therapy, Brainspotting and emotional freedom technique. Lori is also clinically fluent in Spanish.
Partial List of Specialties
- Major Life Change: grief, divorce, etc
- Alcohol Use
- Anorexia/Bulimia
- Anxiety
- Binge Eating / Other
- Bipolar
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Depression
- PTSD - Childhood Trauma
- Dissociative Disorder
- Eye Movement Desensitivation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Compulsive Gambling
- Hoarding
- PTSD - Victim of Abuse
- OCD
- Opioid/Pain Med Use
- Drug Use (non-opioid)
- Phobia
- Postpartum Depression
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Sex / Pornography Addiction
- PTSD - Single Incident/Shock
- Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- Somatoform Disorder
Education & Certifications
– Master of Social Work from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL
– Bachelor of Science in Public and Social Services from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA
– Member of the National Association of Social Workers
– Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina
