Deborah Richert, LCMFT

Deborah Richert is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) with 11 years of experience. She brings a relaxed, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help people identify their strengths. She offers a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk honestly about what feels hard right now.

Deborah focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment challenges, chronic pain or illness, codependency, and mood or panic symptoms. Her work often includes practical strategies to manage difficult feelings and patterns.

Her approach blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and the Gottman Method to meet each person where they are. She emphasizes collaborating with clients to choose methods that fit their goals and everyday life. Sessions typically work toward clearer communication, better emotion regulation, and coping skills for day-to-day challenges.

Deborah treats each person as an individual and invites client input into treatment decisions. She looks for ways to build on strengths and reduce what gets in the way of feeling better. Humor and warmth are part of how she connects while keeping the focus on practical progress.

She practices in Kansas and works in English. If living with health challenges is part of a person’s situation, she includes those concerns alongside other mental health and relationship goals when planning care.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Deborah uses Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in ways that fit real life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more secure ways of relating. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing more useful ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah treats this as a joint process, discussing goals and preferences and then trying methods that match those priorities. She checks in and adjusts choices if something is not working for the person's needs.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or making it simpler to join sessions from a different location. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises from Attachment-Based Therapy and CBT to online visits so people can practice new skills between meetings.