About Richard
Richard Orona is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people make clear, manageable changes. He draws on 13 years of counseling work to help people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, grief, and struggles with self-esteem or addiction. He writes in plain terms and aims to help people build skills they can use day to day.
Richard’s work mixes practical problem solving with attention to how past attachments shape current behavior.
Background and approach
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to spot thinking patterns that feed difficult feelings. He also weaves in solution-focused steps so people can try small changes quickly and see what helps. He has worked in community agencies and independent practice across Texas.
That variety gave him experience with many concerns, including parenting stress, blended family issues, fatherhood challenges, and substance use problems. He emphasizes tools people can practice outside sessions to keep progress going. Sessions are organized to assess what matters most and then set short-term goals.
Richard helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in everyday life. He aims for straightforward strategies rather than long lectures. Those who work with him can expect a practical, goal-oriented approach that still pays attention to relationships and personal history.
The focus is on finding what helps you feel calmer, communicate better, and move toward goals you care about.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Richard uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts that fuel anxiety and low mood. With CBT, the work is hands-on: identify a thought, test it, and try a different behavior to see what changes. This approach is useful for stress, worry, sleep problems, and depressive thinking.He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships. That perspective helps when communication, trust, or commitment issues cause repeated conflict or loneliness. The Gottman Method informs his work with relationship skills by offering focused tools for improving communication and reducing destructive cycles.
Finding the right approach is part of treatment. Richard will discuss goals and preferences and then help clients pick methods that fit their needs. He approaches therapy as a collaboration, adjusting strategies if something isn’t working or if practical life demands change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when more interaction helps. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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