About Richard
Richard Alongi is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety and related concerns. He speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel manageable for someone under stress. He recognizes that starting therapy can feel hard and aims to make the first steps straightforward and respectful.
Richard draws on more than 36 years of clinical work in California as a CA LMFT. He focuses on practical conversations about addiction, relationships, trauma, grief, depression, anger, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also helps people coping with life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. In sessions he adapts his approach to each person. He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past bonds shape current feelings.
He also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the client's perspective and pace. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Imago techniques inform his work around relationship and intimacy concerns. Richard describes therapy as a collaborative process.
He listens for patterns that keep problems cycling and then works with clients to try different responses. Conversations are aimed at clearer feelings, better communication, and practical steps that can be used between sessions. People who choose him can expect steady, plain-spoken guidance and a plan shaped around their needs.
He will tailor dialogue and goals to the issue at hand and to each person’s readiness for change.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current emotions and relationship patterns. Online sessions can help people name those patterns and try new ways of connecting with others. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's experience and pace, offering space to guide the conversation where the client needs it most. This approach helps people process feelings and set personal goals in a way that fits their rhythm. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is useful for working through strong emotions tied to relationships and attachment needs; it helps identify emotional cycles and practice new responses.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify what feels most helpful based on a client's goals, history, and preferences. That may mean trying one method for a while and adjusting as needs change, with the client guiding the pace.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging suits brief check-ins, ongoing processing between sessions, or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity when schedules shift.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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