About Anna
Dr. Anna Ruggirello is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience who practices from Pennsylvania. She brings a warm, encouraging presence to sessions and focuses on helping people through anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD-related concerns.
Her approach emphasizes respect and steady support so clients feel heard and guided toward practical next steps. She uses clear, hands-on strategies rather than vague promises. That can mean learning mindfulness skills to ease anxious moments or trying new thinking and behavior tools to break unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also supports people working through major life changes, career stress, sleep trouble, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work across multiple care settings, which shaped a conversational and problem-focused style. Conversations are straightforward, and she aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
She emphasizes finding meaning and building confidence as part of recovery and growth. Sessions often mix active skill practice with listening and reflection. She helps clients identify what’s most important, set small goals, and track progress.
People who prefer a collaborative, compassionate counselor tend to find her approach useful. Practical matters are discussed up front. She does not provide diagnostic paperwork, insurance reimbursement letters, or legal documentation.
Communication options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs.
How her approaches fit online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person and their goals. Sessions focus on listening, empathy, and helping people clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. CBT often includes homework and step-by-step practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal interactions, which can help with anger, relationship strain, and intense emotional episodes.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will help clients try methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Conversations early on focus on priorities and small experiments to see what helps most.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, short coaching, or steady support between sessions. These options make it practical to keep therapy consistent while adapting to work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Maine
- Languages
- English
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