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About Richard
Over 30 years of experience —
grounded in resilience, relationship, and care
Richard Chaney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 30 years of clinical experience. He earned his Master's degree in Couples and Family Therapy from Drexel University in 1993 and is a Clinical Member and AAMFT Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy — reflecting more than two decades of experience providing clinical supervision to both seasoned clinicians and student therapists in agency, private practice, and educational settings.
Richard works with adolescent teens, young adults, and adults across a broad range of concerns, including trauma recovery (physical, sexual, and emotional), depression, anxiety, substance dependency and abuse, loss and bereavement, and adjustment to major life transitions. He brings depth of experience and a calm, focused presence to each therapeutic relationship he forms.
At the heart of his work is a best practices model centered on identifying each client's individual strengths and sources of resilience. He draws on an integrated toolkit — including structural and contextual family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and brief solution-focused approaches — to meet each person and family where they are and support meaningful, lasting change.
"Effective therapy begins with recognizing what each person already brings — their strengths, their resilience, and their capacity for change."
Therapeutic Approaches
An integrated toolkit built on
30 years of clinical practice
Richard draws on multiple evidence-based frameworks, combining them in ways that fit each client's unique situation, goals, and patterns of relating.
Structural Family Therapy
Examines and reshapes the underlying patterns and hierarchies within family systems — helping families establish healthier boundaries, roles, and ways of relating to one another.
Contextual Family Therapy
Explores the relational ethics and loyalties that shape family dynamics across generations — addressing fairness, trust, and the invisible ledgers that influence how people connect and conflict.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Helps individuals identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, building more adaptive responses to stress, trauma, depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties.
Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
A goal-oriented approach that focuses on what's already working and what clients want to achieve — building on existing strengths to create practical, efficient pathways toward change.