Richard Alongi, LMFT

Richard Alongi is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 36 years of clinical experience. He works with adults who are struggling with anger, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. He also addresses career concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.

Richard focuses on clear, practical conversation. He listens to the problem as you describe it and helps map out useful next steps. Sessions tend to center on understanding patterns in relationships, emotional triggers, and how present behavior links to past experience.

His approach draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused work to look at how bonds and hurts shape reactions. He also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in what the individual wants to change. Jungian ideas may be used to look at underlying themes that recur in a person’s life.

In practice this means talking through specific situations where anger or frustration shows up. He will help identify immediate coping moves and longer-term shifts in how someone relates to others. Conversations can include exploring boundaries, commitment and control issues, and how past abandonment or trauma affects present responses.

Richard works directly with adults and aims for straightforward, goal-oriented sessions. He asks about the practical effects of problems at home, work, and in intimate life. The focus is on reducing harmful patterns and increasing clearer ways to express needs and manage strong emotions.

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