Dr. Anna Ruggirello, LPC, LCPC
Compassionate counselor offering practical emotion tools
Book with AnnaWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
How Anna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC, LCPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, Maine
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Anna
Dr. Anna Ruggirello is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience. She practices from Pennsylvania and brings a warm, encouraging presence to sessions.
Her style is supportive and patient focused. She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, grief, and relationship strain. She also supports clients facing career changes, caregiving stress, ADHD challenges, and sleep problems.
Her approach centers on listening first and helping people find practical next steps.
Background and approach
In sessions she teaches mindfulness skills and uses straightforward strategies to manage difficult emotions. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people shift unhelpful thinking and on dialectical skills to improve emotional regulation. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each persons needs.
Dr. Ruggirello notes that she does not provide diagnostic paperwork or documentation for insurance, medical, or legal purposes. Instead she focuses on counseling that offers encouragement, skill building, and problem solving.
People who want gentle, steady support often find this approach useful. Her background includes work in a range of settings where she supported adults through loss, trauma, and life transitions. She aims to create respectful, attentive sessions that make it easier to take the next step.
If someone is nervous about starting therapy, she emphasizes small, doable goals and steady encouragement.
What Anna works with
Everything Anna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Anna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- 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)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Anna lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps with motivation, low mood, and life transitions by centering the person's goals and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video lets people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles.
Questions people ask about Anna
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, relationship and family problems, sleep issues, career transitions, ADHD, and related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, encouraging, and collaborative. She listens first and then teaches mindfulness and practical coping strategies tailored to each person.
What is her clinical experience?
She has 16 years of experience working in a variety of settings helping people through loss, trauma, life changes, and everyday stressors.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices in Pennsylvania as stated in her profile.
Can someone work with her if they live outside the United States?
International clients are accepted and sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are session costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapists availability.