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Richard "Richie" Long, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyLGBTRelationship issuesSelf esteemDepression
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Richard "Richie" Long is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, eating issues, grief and LGBT matters. He aims to be direct yet supportive and says there is no judgement in his approach.
Richie aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. He uses talking therapy alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and adapts to what the person brings to the room.
Background and approach
He says he has personal experience of recovery and applies that perspective to help others move on from the past. Sessions focus on clear goals and methods people can use between appointments. Richie often helps people untangle patterns that keep them stuck and work towards small achievable changes.
He can be direct when needed, while also offering steady support over time. His additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, body image and intimacy-related concerns, neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.
He also helps with communication problems, commitment worries and codependency. Richie has three years' professional experience and holds BACP registration. He offers sessions to people across time zones and uses a flexible, pragmatic style to fit life commitments.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy is about the person leading the pace and direction of the work while the counsellor listens and reflects. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behaviour. It suits people who want concrete techniques to manage anxiety, low mood or stress and practical tasks between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people identify and work with strong emotions and attachments that affect relationships and intimacy. It is useful where emotional patterns are keeping someone stuck or causing distress in close connections.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and preferences, and may combine elements from different approaches as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for short check-ins and text messaging can suit those who prefer written reflection. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel or different time zones.
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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
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