About Richelle
Richelle Burney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Richelle aims to make conversations feel direct and useful for everyday life.
She draws on five years of clinical experience supporting people through depression, grief, relationship and family problems, and challenges tied to parenting or intimacy.
Background and approach
Her work also covers career concerns, bipolar mood issues, and recovery from trauma and abuse. She pays attention to the specific pressures a person brings into the room and the resources they already have. Richelle favors a client-centered approach.
That means she listens for what matters most to each person and shapes sessions around individual goals. She combines techniques to match those goals rather than following a single fixed method. In sessions she helps people build coping skills, improve communication, and make plans for change.
Practical tools and clear steps are part of how she works, along with time to talk through feelings and setbacks. She also connects people to community resources when that will help. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation and goal-focused planning.
Richelle welcomes questions about how therapy could fit into daily life and will work with each person to find workable next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Richelle uses evidence-based techniques focused on building skills and creating real change. One common approach she uses is practical skills coaching - teaching specific coping strategies, communication tools, and step-by-step plans to manage anxiety, stress, or cravings. This helps people try new behaviors between sessions and track what works.She also emphasizes a client-centered approach that prioritizes each person's goals and preferences. That means sessions are shaped around what the person wants to accomplish, and Richelle adapts methods to fit those goals through conversation and shared planning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Richelle will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or obstacles appear.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people have a more conversational session, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter or longer contacts, and different ways to stay connected with a therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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