About Richelle
Richelle Burney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and substance use concerns. She supports people facing life transitions, relationship and family struggles, grief, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her work also includes support for bipolar symptoms and career-related stress.
Richelle offers a direct, practical style in sessions. She focuses on what an individual needs right now and helps set clear goals.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be straightforward and solution-oriented, with attention to everyday coping skills and problem solving. Her approach draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a client-centered philosophy. She partners with people to tailor methods to their situation, whether the focus is on addiction, mood symptoms, or relationship patterns.
She pays particular attention to attachment, abandonment, and blended family dynamics when these are relevant. Richelle brings five years of clinical experience and holds a Virginia LCSW license. She can guide people through challenges such as domestic violence aftermath, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment issues.
Sessions aim to balance emotional understanding with practical steps. People can expect help identifying patterns, learning coping strategies, and connecting to resources. Richelle emphasizes collaboration and clear next steps so progress feels manageable.
Approaches that guide online care
Richelle uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach emphasizes structured problem solving and skill building to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress; it teaches concrete tools to manage difficult moments and daily demands. Another area of focus addresses addiction and substance use by combining coping strategies with support for identifying triggers and healthier routines; this helps people reduce harm and regain control over daily functioning. Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will start by understanding the person's goals, history, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Over time those methods are adjusted based on what helps most, and the client is involved at every step. Online formats give flexibility for busy lives. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick, ongoing contact for between-session support or brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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