Marsha Hicks (Richards), LCSW

Therapist in Florida

Marsha Hicks (Richards) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience.

Licensed inFlorida
LicenseSW14568
NPI 1508253352
Experience21+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Marsha

Marsha Hicks (Richards) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience. She works with adults on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addiction, and problems with intimacy and self-esteem. Her approach centers on attachment and the relationships that shape how people feel and connect.

She earned a Master of Social Work from Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and holds a Florida LCSW. Marsha has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings, offering individual and group work across different stages of life.

Background and approach

That background helps her match practical strategies to each person's situation. In sessions she draws from client-centered methods that focus on the person's own goals and values. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense emotions and impulses.

These approaches are blended so clients get clear, usable steps between meetings. Marsha often helps people facing co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns. She also supports people coping with abandonment, adoption and foster-care issues, caregiver stress, body image, dissociation, and other complex challenges.

Her work pays attention to how past relationships influence present behavior. Therapy with Marsha tends to be practical and down-to-earth. She talks through immediate problems, teaches coping skills, and helps people build more satisfying ways of relating.

Sessions are collaborative, with plans adjusted as needs evolve.

Credentials

LCSW (Florida): License SW14568 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1508253352 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Marsha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Grief
Self esteem
Depression
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Post-traumatic stress
Self-harm
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Marsha names

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Online support

Attachment and skills-based work online

Marsha integrates attachment-based ideas with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand how their relationships shape their feelings and behavior. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how those patterns affect trust, closeness, and coping; it can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, and attachment concerns. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and lived experience, offering a compassionate space to talk and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical strategies to reduce anxiety, lift mood, or change unhelpful habits.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time as progress and priorities change.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in, live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates or when written reflection helps, and those options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. These formats let people access consistent care while balancing work, travel, or other responsibilities.

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Frequently asked

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is grounded in attachment-based and client-centered work with practical CBT and DBT skills added as needed.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 21 years of clinical experience in inpatient and outpatient settings working with individuals and groups.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds a Master of Social Work and is a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida.

Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

Which session formats are available?

Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How is cost handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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