LeeAnn Van Vreede
Practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About LeeAnn
LeeAnn Van Vreede is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience in Wisconsin. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship difficulties. Parents worried about family dynamics and parenting challenges will find a direct, practical approach.
Sessions are grounded in everyday language and focused on what needs to change now. Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens first and then helps develop realistic steps for coping and recovery.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on client-centered methods to follow each person's pace. Mindfulness practices are used to increase calm and attention in stressful moments. LeeAnn also uses motivational interviewing when people are unsure about making changes.
Solution-focused work helps set clear, achievable goals and track progress. Together these methods support work on grief, trauma, self-esteem, and career stress. She pays attention to family of origin issues, codependency, and caregiver stress when those patterns affect current relationships.
Addiction-related concerns including drug and alcohol recovery are addressed alongside co-occurring mood or anxiety symptoms. Seasonal affective disorder and bipolar mood concerns are also within her scope of support. Practical tools, not jargon, are central to sessions.
Expect simple exercises, concrete coping strategies, and a plan you can try between meetings. The aim is clearer choices, better daily functioning, and stronger family connections.
Approaches and online options for practical change
LeeAnn uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. She also uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive space where the client's goals guide the work, and mindfulness practices to build calmer attention and reduce stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest one or a blend of methods that fit your needs. Together you will try approaches and make adjustments based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Sessions can be done by video call or phone when you need face-to-face conversation, or by live chat and text-based messaging for brief check-ins and support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum, practice new skills, and fit therapy into a family schedule.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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