About Richard
Richard Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. He focuses on clear, direct work to help people untangle relationship patterns and move toward more satisfying lives.
Background and approach
He works with individuals and couples and speaks English. Many clients come for help with relationship conflicts, intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, or career changes.
He also addresses anxiety, anger, compassion fatigue, and the stresses that follow major life transitions. He notes that addiction, domestic violence, and faith-based issues are not a good fit for his practice.
Richard aims for straightforward, practical conversations that identify what keeps someone stuck. He tailors each plan to the person or couple in front of him, focusing on choices that create clearer connections or, when needed, an intentional separation.
Sessions are delivered in formats that fit busy lives, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Clients often begin by describing a persistent sense of being ‘stuck’ in a stable but unsatisfying situation.
Richard helps people decide whether to repair a relationship, change personal patterns, or plan a respectful separation. He values honest feedback and will be direct when that helps progress.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. He practices in Florida as a Florida licensed marriage and family therapist and has previous licensure in Georgia.
Practical approaches for online relationship and life changes
Richard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on relationships and life transitions. One approach emphasizes clear communication and problem solving to improve how partners interact and repair trust; it helps with recurring arguments and intimacy problems. Another approach centers on identifying unhelpful patterns and building small, manageable behavior changes to reduce anxiety and increase day-to-day functioning; this is useful for stress, anger, and coping with change.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they shape a plan that fits the client’s needs and the realities of their life, adjusting methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let visual cues guide conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat works for quick exchanges, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily demands while keeping treatment practical and goal-focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English