Kasimu-Richard Harley, LMFT

Kasimu-Richard Harley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 27 years of experience. He draws on a long personal and professional journey that includes military service and roles supporting students, teachers, and people in recovery. He describes therapy as practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people move past what holds them back.

He has worked in outpatient and residential settings with adolescents and adults facing substance use and mental wellness challenges. He also provided stress reduction and work-balance coaching to educators and school staff. Those roles shaped an approach that blends several ways of working rather than relying on a single method.

In sessions he uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practices to address depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and related struggles. He emphasizes clear, step-by-step strategies that people can apply between meetings. This helps turn insights into concrete changes.

Kasimu-Richard also focuses on relationship and family-related concerns, parenting and fatherhood issues, communication and attachment problems, and challenges tied to adoption, foster care, and blended families. He speaks directly about abandonment, codependency, guilt, and shame as obstacles he can help people untangle.

His style is collaborative and respectful. He invites people to identify goals and to test small changes in real life. The aim is to help each person reclaim a sense of agency and move toward what he calls “walking in your awesomeness.”

Practical approaches for online healing

Kasimu-Richard uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is goal-focused and suited for anxiety, depression, and stress where changing thought patterns can reduce symptoms.

He also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s own goals. That approach helps people feel heard and then choose changes that fit their values. Mindfulness therapy is woven into sessions to teach simple breathing and attention practices that reduce reactivity and help with trauma, grief, and everyday overwhelm.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try and adjusts them based on progress and preference. Together they set clear goals and test small, manageable steps between meetings.

Online therapy offers a range of flexible options. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be used when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, tracking homework, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and apply learning in real life.