About Richelle
Richelle Burney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and big life changes. She supports those coping with relationship strain, family problems, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and issues with self-esteem and intimacy. Richelle also works with people navigating career stress, bipolar mood concerns, and decision points related to separation or divorce.
She keeps sessions focused on the person in front of her.
How Richelle works
Conversations are practical and straightforward. Richelle listens, helps sort priorities, and suggests steps clients can try between sessions. She also connects people with community resources when that will help progress.
With five years of clinical experience, Richelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns. She emphasizes a client-centered approach, tailoring the pace and focus to each person’s needs. This means the plan can change as goals evolve.
Richelle pays attention to family background, attachment and adoption issues, and patterns like codependency or communication problems that affect day-to-day life. She helps people manage caregiver stress, blended family tensions, and trauma-related reactions while offering coaching-style guidance for concrete problems. Sessions are offered in English and Richelle accepts international clients.
She aims to make therapy accessible through a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options to fit different schedules and preferences.
What Richelle works with
The areas below are the ones Richelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Therapeutic approaches and online care
Richelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques delivered in ways that fit each person. One common approach is client-centered work, which emphasizes listening, clarifying goals, and building a plan that matches the person’s values and pace. This helps with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and decisions about life changes.She also focuses on interventions that address substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns, combining practical problem-solving with support for changing behaviors. That approach is useful for people working on addiction, relapse prevention, and managing mood or impulse challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Richelle will talk with each person about symptoms, daily routines, and what outcomes matter most. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress and goals change.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for shorter updates, written reflection, or when scheduling constraints make real-time sessions difficult. These formats let people connect from different places and times while keeping the focus on practical steps and consistent progress.
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