Marsha Hicks (Richards)

Marsha Hicks (Richards) uses a human-centered, strengths-based approach to help people manage anger and related concerns. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with more than two decades of clinical practice. Marsha focuses on practical steps people can use to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Stony Brook University, School of Social Welfare and has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings since 2004. That range of settings shaped how she supports people through both short-term problems and longer-term challenges. Her background includes work with dual diagnoses of mental health and addictions.

Marsha brings together methods from attachment-based work, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and existential therapy. She adapts tools to fit each person’s needs and priorities rather than using a single formula. Sessions often focus on clear skills, new ways of understanding feelings, and setting manageable goals.

Common issues she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and anger. She also lists attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar spectrum concerns, and compassion fatigue among her focus areas.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that looks at strengths and practical changes. Marsha aims to make therapy understandable and doable, with steps people can apply between sessions.

How these approaches shape online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships and early bonds affect current feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns can relate to anger or trust issues. Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk things through and decide on practical next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific, manageable skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that fit their goals, preferences, and everyday life. That may mean mixing techniques from different approaches and adjusting as progress is made.

Because the original biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make regular sessions easier to fit into a busy schedule, cut down on commute time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use structured skill practice, mood tracking, and conversational sessions to support progress, while tailoring homework and exercises to what works in a person’s day-to-day routine.