About Valerie
Valerie Farrell brings 28 years of clinical social work experience to her practice in New York. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and life transitions. Her tone is practical and direct, aimed at people who need clear steps forward.
Valerie tailors sessions to each person’s needs. She blends approaches like attachment-focused work, cognitive strategies, client-centered conversation, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize real-world coping skills alongside reflection on past patterns that still affect daily life. Clients often come with overlapping issues such as chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image concerns, or substance use. Valerie helps people break these problems into manageable parts so they can set realistic goals and try new coping tools between sessions.
She also addresses loneliness, abandonment concerns, dissociation, and complex grief. Her style balances practical coaching with emotional exploration. People can expect calm, direct guidance, and an emphasis on building resilience.
Discussions move at a steady pace and focus on what will make life easier now. Valerie works by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexible care. Sessions are scheduled through the platform process, starting with a short questionnaire and matching step.
She practices from New York and conducts sessions in English.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when trust, closeness, or repeated emotional reactions make daily life harder. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to your concerns without judgment, helping people feel understood and decide what changes to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits through small, practical steps that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what feels useful. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video suits deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone can be simpler when video is difficult. Live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use shorter, targeted exchanges. These options help fit therapy into busy days, long commutes, or changing schedules while keeping focus on progress and practical tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English