About LeeAnn
LeeAnn Van Vreede is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. She focuses on practical support for everyday challenges. Her manner is steady and compassionate, aimed at helping clients find clearer routines and coping tools.
LeeAnn uses plain language in sessions and helps people set small, achievable goals. She pays attention to mood patterns, workplace strain, and family dynamics.
Background and approach
That makes it easier to spot what’s getting in the way and try realistic changes. Her approach blends talking and skill-building. She listens without judgment and helps clients test new ways of managing thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
Sessions often include planning for hard moments and trying out strategies between meetings. People come to her for help with grief, trauma, codependency, and caregiver stress. She also supports those facing midlife transitions, seasonal mood shifts, and concerns about self-worth.
LeeAnn aims to help clients feel more capable and less overwhelmed. In Wisconsin practice, she combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. She also uses motivational interview and solution-focused methods when those fit the situation.
The goal is steady progress through methods that match each person’s needs. Sessions are designed to build resilience and practical skills. LeeAnn works with clients to track progress and adjust the plan as life changes.
Her style is collaborative, straightforward, and goal minded.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters to each person. That approach is about building trust, clarifying goals, and shaping sessions around what the client values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and stress management.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit best, adjusting goals and techniques as progress is made. Sessions combine discussion with concrete exercises to practice between meetings.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through skills in real time. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or notes about what to try between sessions. These options make it easier to match session format to the purpose of the meeting and to daily life demands.
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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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