About Valerie
Valerie Kennedy Lang is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and low self-esteem. She supports coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, ADHD, and LGBT issues. Valerie has 14 years of experience and offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence for people seeking support.
She listens first and lets each person set goals for therapy. Sessions focus on practical tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Valerie works collaboratively, helping people notice strengths and build new ways to cope. Her background includes practice in healthcare settings, nonprofit work, and independent practice. That experience shaped her work with people facing chronic illness, serious medical events, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiving stress, and bereavement.
In sessions she draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas also inform her work. She tailors techniques to individual needs rather than following a single method.
Valerie provides sessions for people in Missouri and accepts international clients in English. She works through a subscription model where appointments are scheduled after completing a short matching questionnaire. The goal is steady, practical progress toward goals people set for themselves.
How Valerie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s pace. The therapist creates a space where goals come from the person and sessions are shaped around their needs. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, respectful place to sort out feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. It is practical work that can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and make daily tasks easier by using tools and homework between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools are useful for overwhelming emotions, anger, relationship patterns, and stress management.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions evolve as needs and circumstances change, so techniques and pacing are adjusted together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people check in between meetings and keep work moving when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue support over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English