Donna Harris-Richards
LICSW, CST • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
About
Donna Harris-Richards, LICSW, CST, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Couples and Relationship Therapist. She has over eighteen years of experience helping clients navigate relationships, sexuality, and mental health, specializing in family and systemic therapy and sexual health to support relational well-being.
Her counseling draws on narrative therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness (MBCT), and evidence-based practices. She works with individuals, couples, and families, offers Telehealth online therapy, and brings over forty years of professional experience in the arts and business to her clinical work.
Donna addresses relationships, sexuality, anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, disability, and aging, emphasizing sex-positive thinking and attending to both the physical and emotional aspects of sexual health.
Qualifications
Education
- Master of Social Work, 2003
Certifications, Memberships & Training
- AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, MA, 2019
- National Association of Social Workers, 2003
- American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, 2017
- Alpha Delta Mu - National Social Work Honor Society, 2003
State Licenses
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, MA
Specialties & Expertise
Specializations
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Infidelity
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Sex Therapy
- Substance Abuse
- Trauma
State Licenses
- Massachusetts
Race, Gender & Sexual Sensitivities
- LGBTQ+ Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Sex-Positive; Kink Allied
Compliance
- HIPAA Compliant
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Locations
Donna Harris-Richards - New Bedford Office
103 Chestnut St
New Bedford, MA 02740