About Anna
Dr. Anna Ruggirello is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of clinical experience based in Pennsylvania. She uses a warm, encouraging approach and focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties.
She aims to give each person time, respect, and practical support as they work through hard moments. She draws on client-centered work to make sessions feel grounded in the person's own goals and values.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness practices are offered to help manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. Dr.
Ruggirello has experience across many settings and brings that perspective to individual sessions. She also addresses sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related concerns. Additional focuses include abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, codependency, and stages of aging.
Her style is supportive and practical. Sessions include teaching skills, practicing strategies, and talking through what to try between meetings. She encourages small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier moods.
Online session options include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients who speak English may use these formats to connect and work through life transitions, loss, or ongoing anxiety.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening deeply, following the client's goals, and creating a respectful space to talk through stressful thoughts and feelings. This approach helps when someone needs steady encouragement and a chance to make sense of life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses simple, practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. It can help with anxiety, sleep troubles, low mood, and career stress by teaching tools to test thoughts and change behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It is useful for overwhelming emotions, anger, and relationship conflict and pairs well with mindfulness practice to reduce reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That collaborative process may mix elements from several approaches as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow and when a more interactive session is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-message options support brief updates, coaching-style exchanges, or follow-up between longer appointments. These options make it easier to access regular support and keep progress moving forward.
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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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