About Richard
Richard "Richie" Long is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and phobias. He also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strains, intimacy concerns and the after-effects of trauma and abuse. Richie uses a straightforward, non-judgemental approach so clients can feel understood and start making changes.
Richie holds BACP accreditation, which means he is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
He has three years of documented experience working with these kinds of concerns and offers sessions in English. He is comfortable working with issues such as addiction to online porn and gambling, body image, eating concerns and chronic illness related stress. In sessions he blends talking therapy with structured techniques.
He may introduce cognitive behavioural strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts, or use emotionally focused work to help with relationship and attachment issues. He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore past patterns that keep repeating in someone’s life. Richie aims to be direct yet supportive.
He encourages honesty about difficult experiences and helps clients find practical steps forward. He is flexible about scheduling and offers several online formats to fit different needs and time zones. People who choose Richie can expect a calm, pragmatic counsellor who listens and helps plan achievable changes.
He focuses on what clients want to change now, while also looking at how past experiences might be getting in the way.
How Richie’s approaches suit online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The counsellor follows the client’s lead, offering empathy and support to help people find their own solutions to anxiety, low self-esteem or grief.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It can help with phobias, panic, stress and patterns that keep someone stuck by teaching ways to test and reframe worrying thoughts.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at feelings and attachment patterns that affect relationships and intimacy. It can help people who want to improve communication, deal with abandonment fears or rebuild trust in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods as the work unfolds. Clients often use a mix of approaches tailored to their needs rather than a single method.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat or messaging offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during important conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, shorter reflections or when fitting therapy into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care across time zones and varied schedules.
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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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