Richard "Richie" Long
Direct, practical support for stress and relationships
About Richard
Richard "Richie" Long offers help for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related or relationship worries. He also supports people facing eating concerns and those from LGBT communities. Richie is based in the United Kingdom and works with people who want a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy.
He draws on Client-Centred Therapy to make sessions focused on the person's own experience and priorities.
Background and approach
He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that keep problems alive. Solution-Focused Therapy is used when people want clear, short-term goals and practical steps. Richie describes his style as direct but non-judgemental.
He aims to be straightforward and supportive while helping people test new ways of thinking and behaving. Sessions often include talking through painful memories, spotting unhelpful patterns, and trying small experiments to see what changes feel useful. He has three years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Richie is willing to work with international clients and conducts sessions in English. His background includes helping people with issues linked to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and alternative sexual cultures. People who choose Richie can expect a practical focus, clear goals when helpful, and a collaborative effort to find what works.
He invites prospective clients to consider their hopes for therapy and to begin with a short questionnaire and scheduling step.
What Richard works with
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Sessions & fees
How Richie uses established approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening to the person's experience and following their priorities; it helps people feel understood and shapes the work around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives practical strategies to reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss different methods, try things out together, and adjust the plan based on the person's goals and how they respond. This means sessions can be tailored over time rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, and to continue work across different time zones.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
