LeeAnn Van Vreede, LPC

LeeAnn Van Vreede is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship struggles. She works with adults facing life transitions, parenting strain, grief, and challenges such as ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Her approach aims to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming.

She favors clear, practical work in sessions. Clients identify what feels most urgent and they set small, realistic goals together. LeeAnn combines talk-based work with exercises that build coping skills and reduce distress in daily life.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through family-of-origin problems, codependency, substance use concerns, and career or midlife crossroads. She also focuses on guilt, shame, self-esteem, and issues connected to LGBT identity. These themes often come up alongside mood disorders and seasonal challenges.

LeeAnn uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered methods, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and solution-focused practices. She adapts those methods to each person’s pace, helping them test new ways of thinking, try behavioral changes, and notice what works.

Sessions emphasize straightforward skills and steady progress. People who work with her leave with specific strategies for managing anxiety, handling relationship conflict, and coping with major life changes. She practices in Wisconsin as an LPC and conducts work in English.

How her approaches work online

LeeAnn uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on changing thought patterns and building practical skills that can be practiced between sessions.

She also uses client-centered methods that emphasize listening and empathy, giving clients space to describe struggles and set their own goals. Mindfulness therapy is used to teach attention and breathing practices that lower reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. LeeAnn starts by asking about a person's goals and daily routines, then recommends ways of working that fit those needs. She adjusts methods over time so the plan stays useful and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter updates and ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.