About Anna
Dr. Anna Ruggirello is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 16 years of experience. She greets people with warmth and direct support.
Her approach aims to help someone navigate hard moments like depression, anxiety, or grief without judgment. She focuses on practical steps and skills. She often teaches mindfulness techniques and tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches.
Those methods are used to manage anxious thoughts, regulate strong emotions, and build small daily routines that feel doable.
Background and approach
Relationship concerns and communication problems are common reasons people reach out. She brings attention to how partners and family members talk and make decisions. She also works with people coping with loss, changes in caregiving roles, or struggles tied to adoption, abandonment, and attachment issues.
Sessions can include short-term coaching or longer work on self-esteem, career direction, sleep problems, or compassion fatigue. Her style is encouraging and steady; she aims to help people find next steps and practice them between meetings. She emphasizes respect and treats each person as an individual.
Dr. Ruggirello also supports people dealing with anger, trauma and abuse, divorce and separation, or feelings of emptiness. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, people are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Approaches to work with online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and respected; it helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to manage strong reactions and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, concerns, and what feels manageable. That might mean trying different tools and adjusting over time until the best fit emerges.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, live chat is good for short focused moments, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this counselor 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