About Richard
Richard Alongi is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings decades of experience to common life struggles. He focuses on practical ways to help people manage anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and everyday stress. Richard emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions so people feel heard and understood.
He uses a somatic-informed perspective alongside attachment and client-centered approaches. That means paying attention to both body responses and emotional history while keeping the person's goals central.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person, with conversation and exercises chosen to fit their needs and pace. Richard has worked in California settings for many years and draws on 36 years of clinical experience. He combines hands-on listening with clear, usable strategies for coping, improving relationships, and rebuilding confidence.
He aims for straightforward guidance rather than clinical jargon. People often come for help with addiction, complicated grief, career stress, anger, ADHD-related challenges, or feelings of emptiness. He also supports those facing attachment wounds, codependency, and issues around commitment or control.
Treatment plans address both immediate coping and longer-term change. Sessions can include talk-based work, body-awareness practices, and tools to shift how people respond to stress. Richard encourages collaboration about goals and methods so the work feels relevant.
He frames the therapeutic relationship as a place to practice new ways of relating to oneself and others.
How attachment and somatic approaches work online
Richard blends somatic awareness with attachment-based and client-centered work to address how people feel in their bodies and relationships. Somatic work pays attention to physical sensations and breathing to help reduce overwhelming stress and anxiety and to regain a sense of calm in moments of strong emotion. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past relational experiences affect current bonds and reactions. Client-centered therapy keeps the focus on the person’s needs, using empathic listening and curiosity to shape sessions around their goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, preferences, and what feels comfortable. Choices about methods are made together, and plans are adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and comfort levels. These formats allow for flexible check-ins, ongoing conversation, and continuity of care when coming in person is difficult. The mix of approaches and online options supports steady progress even when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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