About Richard
Richard Orona, LPC, uses clear, practical therapy to help people make real changes. He draws on 13 years of experience to focus on what matters most to each person. He speaks plainly and works with clients who bring stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addiction, family problems, sleep trouble, anger, bipolar concerns, and related issues.
Richard believes therapy should be straightforward and goal oriented. He blends approaches that look at how thoughts shape behavior with methods that focus on finding workable solutions.
Background and approach
In sessions he helps clients notice unhelpful thinking and try small, realistic changes that can build momentum. He has worked in counseling agencies and in independent practice across Texas. That mix of settings shaped a practice that aims to be practical and results focused.
He helps people develop skills to manage strong emotions, improve communication, and cope with life transitions like divorce or changes in family roles. Richard also supports people dealing with attachment and adoption questions, caregiver stress, commitment and communication problems, and substance use concerns.
He helps people identify patterns that come from family of origin or past loss, then work on different ways to respond. Sessions focus on assessing the concern, testing simple strategies, and building skills to maintain progress. Richard will work with each person to set clear goals and track steps toward them.
Practical approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how past connections influence trust, closeness, and reactions in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. The Gottman Method offers tools to improve communication and manage conflict in close relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will choose strategies to try. This is a collaborative process that adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when typing out thoughts feels better. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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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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