Jhonel Richards, LCSW

Title: Next Step Clinician
Education: MSW, LCSW, CYT-200
Pronouns: She/Her

Jhonel is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey who has experience with providing individual, family, and group therapy for children, youth, and adults. She has a special interest in working with those impacted by trauma, adversity, and cultural-race-based stress and trauma or oppression. She aims to provide a warm, supportive, and collaborative space to explore the things that are most important to her clients.

Jhonel holds the following certifications:

• Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) used for trauma, anxiety, and OCD
• Certified in The Trauma Conscious Yoga Method for yoga therapy.
• Certified 200-Hour Yoga Teacher (CYT-200)
• Provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) informed individual and group therapy to help enhance emotion regulation and effective communication skills.

Clinical Interests: Trauma, Cultural Race-Based Stress, Trauma or Oppression, OCD, Yoga Therapy, Adjusting to Change, Grief, and Loss.