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About
Kim Richardson, M.A. (Clin Psych), LCPC, LPC

Licensure

Kim Richardson has been licensed since 2001 by the state of Illinois as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). (Click here to find out more about LCPCs and what they are licensed to do.) In addition, she is licensed in the state of Michigan as an Licensed Professional Counselor. (Click here to find out more about LPCs and what they are licensed to do.)

Kim Richardson graduated as a Clinical Psychologist from the Child Guidance Clinic of the University of Cape Town.  She practiced as a fully licensed Clinical Psychologist in South Africa between from 1994 until 2000. 

Work History and Experience

She worked in private practice, and at Valkenberg Hospital - also lecturing and teaching in the  University of Cape Town's Psychology Department. Kim was a key part of the Empilweni Project of the Groote Schuur Department of Psychiatry. Kim worked in the project at the outset in 1994 training the Community Mental Health Workers and presenting research. The project is still in operation today and provides mental health services to severely disadvantaged communities in South Africa.

Kim was active in the Cape Town Self Psychology Group presenting her clinical research in their annual self psychology conferences in Cape Town as well those held by the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology in the USA.

Upon immigrating to Chicago, USA in 2000, she became licensed as a Clinical Professional Counselor focusing her work on new mothers adjusting to motherhood as well as the treatment and prevention of postpartum depression. She is actively involved in the Postpartum Depression Alliance of Illinois.

While awaiting licensure in the USA, she trained and worked as a postpartum doula in 2001 offering support for new mothers. She conducted workshops on new motherhood at Birthways  Inc in Chicago basing her model on Daniel Stern's motherhood constellation. Kim's understanding of the transformation and journey into motherhood has been influenced by psychoanalytic  theorists such as Donald Winnicott, Daniel Stern, Theresa Benedek. Her philosophy incorporates these ideas into a practical and easily accessible model of new motherhood.

Currently

She lives in Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan, USA with her husband and three children. In addition to her own clinical and coaching work, she consults with professionals in private practice - designing them websites, helping them grow their private practice businesses and increasing their referrals and referral sources. For more information, go to: www.websitesbykim.com AND www.websites4lifecoaches.com

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