Richard Alongi , LMFT

Richard Alongi is a California-licensed LMFT with 36 years of professional experience helping people navigate relationships, addiction, trauma, and challenges with intimacy, motivation, and self-esteem. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, he brings long-term clinical perspective and practical support to individuals and couples seeking clearer direction and improved connection.

He approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, shaping conversations and treatment plans to match the realities and goals of the individual. His work includes addressing addictions, relationship struggles, intimacy-related concerns, and building confidence and motivation, with attention to the specific circumstances that brought someone to therapy. Richard emphasizes a collaborative process that adapts to each client rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method.

Recognizing that starting therapy can take courage, he acknowledges and affirms that first step while focusing on practical, tailored steps forward. His practice centers on listening carefully, offering focused guidance, and partnering with clients to develop strategies that support healing, growth, and stronger relationships.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Richard Alongi works from well-established approaches that focus on connection, personal experience, and emotional processing. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and helps people build more secure connections and healthier responses to stress and abandonment issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's own voice and priorities, offering a nonjudgmental space where insight, self-esteem, and motivation can grow at the client’s pace. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and interaction patterns in close relationships, helping partners and individuals identify core feelings and shift toward more constructive, connected ways of relating.

Choosing the right method is part of the therapeutic process, and Richard collaborates with each person to determine which approach or combination of approaches best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative stance helps tailor sessions to what matters most to the client rather than forcing a specific model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit consistent care into busy or geographically dispersed lives. Working with licensed professionals in these formats supports continuity of treatment, accessible scheduling, and the ability to maintain progress even when in-person meetings are not possible.