About Richard
Richard Orona is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, goal-oriented therapy. He offers clear steps to address problems people bring to sessions and helps them build skills they can use after therapy ends. He draws on 13 years of experience in agency settings and independent practice across Texas.
That background means he has helped people with depression, stress and anxiety, relationship problems, addictions, grief, sleeping trouble, anger, self-esteem, and bipolar concerns.
Background and approach
He also works with issues such as attachment, abandonment, blended family stress, and fatherhood questions. In sessions he looks for the most useful next step. He mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - which looks at how thoughts influence behavior - with solution-focused ideas that concentrate on practical change.
Together these approaches guide short-term goal setting and hands-on skill practice. Clients can expect conversations that identify unhelpful thinking, test new responses, and build routines that make daily life easier. He emphasizes concrete tools for managing emotions, improving communication, and staying motivated when change is hard.
Richard describes therapy as a partnership. He works with each person to set clear goals, choose strategies that fit their life, and track progress over time. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than overnight fixes.
Therapy approaches and online options that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and learn new ways to feel and connect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers simple tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. The Gottman Method looks at communication and interaction patterns in partnerships and provides concrete skills to improve conversations and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend approaches that match those needs. Together they set short-term goals and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy here is designed for flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice, or when someone wants to pace messages over time. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English