About Richard
Richard "Richie" Long is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. He also helps with depression, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues linked to eating and family matters. He works in English and offers online sessions for people in different countries.
Richie describes a direct but non-judgemental style. He aims to build a reliable relationship where clients feel able to be honest about difficult experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions combine talking things through with practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day coping. His work draws on client-centred therapy to keep the client’s experience central. He uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationships and closeness are the main concerns. He also uses psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches where helpful, bringing attention to past patterns and to short-term goals. Richie says he is straightforward in session and will challenge unhelpful thinking while remaining supportive.
He has three years of documented experience and holds BACP registration. Richie is comfortable discussing topics such as attachment, adoption and foster care, addiction-related behaviours, body image, and sexual culture including BDSM and kink. He also works with long-term health issues, caregiver stress, and aging-related concerns.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions through the service. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How his approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to make sessions feel accepting and respectful. It helps people explore feelings at their own pace and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Online CBT often involves setting practical tasks between sessions to test new ways of thinking and behaving, useful for anxiety, low mood and stress.
Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on patterns in close relationships and on how emotions drive interaction. It can help people understand and shift patterns that cause repeated conflict or distance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions use less data and can fit around a busy day, while chat and text are useful for short check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit counselling into different schedules and time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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