Richard Alongi, LMFT

Richard Alongi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 36 years of clinical experience. He works with adults who are struggling with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, anxiety, depression, and life changes. He also addresses issues such as self-esteem, grief, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue.

Richard takes a straightforward, conversational approach in sessions. He listens to what matters most and helps people notice how patterns from their past affect present choices. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer communication, and building steadier emotional responses rather than on labels or jargon.

His work draws on attachment-based ideas, emotionally-focused methods, and client-centered principles. That means he pays attention to how early relationship patterns shape current expectations, helps people identify and express key emotions, and centers the client's own goals and perspective during therapy.

Richard also brings perspectives from Imago and Jungian approaches when useful. Those tools can help people understand relationship dynamics or deeper personal narratives that influence behavior and meaning. He uses these methods to support people coping with addiction, commitment or control issues, codependency, and dissociation.

Sessions aim to be practical and readable. Richard helps people rehearse different ways of talking, set realistic changes, and notice small shifts over time. If family of origin patterns still show up in daily life, he helps sort which patterns to keep and which ones to change.

How his approaches translate to online work