About Anna
Dr. Anna Ruggirello is a licensed professional counselor with LPC and LCPC credentials and 16 years of experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and offers care in English, including remote sessions for international clients.
Her approach aims to be warm, encouraging, and respectful so people feel heard from the start. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem. Relationship and family issues are also a central part of her work, along with career transitions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
How Anna works
Additional topics she supports include abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and forgiveness. Dr. Ruggirello blends client-centered work with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches.
She uses mindfulness skills and communication strategies drawn from the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are a focus. Sessions aim to teach specific skills, shift unhelpful thoughts, and build better emotional regulation. Her style is supportive and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect encouragement, concrete coping steps, and time to make sense of life changes. She does not provide diagnostic paperwork or documentation for insurance, doctors, attorneys, or agencies. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Ruggirello often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work to help people change unhelpful thinking and build daily skills. CBT focuses on noticing patterns of thought and behavior, then practicing different responses to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding exercises to ease stress, improve sleep, and reduce reactivity.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to support emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT methods include simple, teachable skills for managing strong feelings and improving relationships, which can help when anger, intense mood swings, or overwhelming stress are present.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try interventions that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into busy schedules. Video is useful for full sessions, phone works well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer a focused short check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions.
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