Richelle Burney
Compassionate support for family and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Richelle
Richelle Burney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and relationship or family difficulties. She also addresses career concerns, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem struggles, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Richelle aims to connect clients with practical resources and clear steps to manage what feels overwhelming.
Her style is client-centered and collaborative. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most, then helps set realistic steps to move forward. Many clients find this straightforward approach useful when they need change without extra complexity. Richelle brings five years of clinical experience as an LCSW.
She has worked with adults and families around substance use and mental health challenges. Her background includes helping people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family issues, caregiving stress, codependency, and separation and divorce.
She also works with people dealing with domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, trauma from disasters, communication and control issues, and parenting concerns linked to disruptive mood disorders. Richelle combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with practical coaching to address daily struggles. Sessions are offered in English and Richelle accepts international clients.
She encourages prospective clients to reach out and discuss their goals, so they can build a plan together.
Approaches that fit family and life changes
Richelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical work. One common approach is client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, building rapport, and shaping goals around what the person finds most important. This method helps when people need a steady, respectful space to sort priorities and make plans.She also draws on behavioral strategies that break larger problems into small, doable steps. Those techniques can help with anxiety, mood challenges, addiction recovery tasks, and parenting routines by creating concrete habits and tracking progress over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Richelle will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and daily life and then recommend which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses so the fit improves over time.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility for busy schedules and different communication styles. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions while balancing work, family, or caregiving responsibilities. Richelle works with clients to choose the format that best supports their goals and routines.
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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
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