About LeeAnn
LeeAnn Van Vreede, LPC, helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She offers straightforward support for addiction concerns, relationship issues, and mood disorders. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier.
LeeAnn brings 20 years of clinical experience in Wisconsin to each session. She listens without judgment and helps clients name what feels most urgent. Sessions often focus on identifying helpful habits and breaking unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals front and center. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness practices help people manage stress in the moment.
LeeAnn also uses motivational interviewing to support change and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable steps. She works with issues such as trauma, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, caregiver strain, and codependency. Practical coping skills and small experiments are common parts of the work.
People who come to LeeAnn can expect a calm, steady presence and a focus on usable strategies. She helps clients build clearer goals, try new approaches, and track what works. The aim is steady improvement and more confidence managing everyday challenges.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful space where the client's goals guide the work, helping people feel heard and understood. This approach suits anyone who wants a collaborative, gentle process to sort through emotions and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical exercises you can practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These skills often complement CBT and help with managing cravings, mood swings, and daily stressors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with clients to pick techniques that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. Together they try methods, note what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options provide flexibility so people can keep momentum even with a packed schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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