About Hazel
Hazel Richards is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, and phobias. She brings a calm, practical style and thirty years of experience to sessions. People who want a steady, goal-minded approach often find her way of working helpful.
Hazel encourages clients to name clear goals and to spot what gets in the way of reaching them. She uses what a person already does well and builds on those strengths.
Background and approach
That can mean finding community resources, changing daily habits, or practicing small steps to face fears. Her background includes child welfare, special education, hospital settings, and mental health rehabilitation. She has worked with individuals, parents, and children and currently works with veterans through the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
That work has involved supporting people with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and addiction concerns. Hazel draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Jungian Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy in her work. She helps clients talk through practical options, reflect on deeper meaning when useful, and develop short-term plans to move forward.
Sessions are aimed at clear, manageable progress. Based in Colorado, Hazel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She sees English-speaking clients and does not take international clients.
The subscription-based session model can be canceled at any time.
How Hazel’s approaches work online
Hazel uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive space where the client leads the conversation and choices. This approach helps people who need to feel heard while they sort through anxiety, stress, or phobias.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to build short-term plans and identify specific steps toward goals. That method works well when someone wants quick changes, clearer routines, or manageable ways to face fears and compulsions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Hazel will talk with each client about their goals and preferences, then try methods that match those priorities. Together they check progress and adjust the plan as needed.
Online delivery offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and practice exposure steps when appropriate. Phone sessions can be a good option for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick support between sessions, or clients who prefer writing over speaking.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or school schedules and to maintain steady contact while working toward specific goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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