About Valerie
Valerie Yost is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. She offers straightforward, practical support for depression, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. Valerie uses clear, hands-on techniques to help people feel steadier in daily life.
Valerie relies mainly on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pairs that with problem-solving steps and emotional regulation tools so people leave sessions with concrete next steps.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, and issues that come with aging or serious illness. Clients often bring worries about self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, or coping with big life changes. Valerie also helps people facing family of origin issues, divorce or separation, infidelity, and the aftermath of sexual assault.
She pays attention to practical needs like hospice and end-of-life counseling when those concerns arise. Valerie practices in Florida and holds a Florida licensed clinical social worker credential - LCSW. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through telephone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She aims to match therapeutic techniques to each person’s goals and daily realities. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Valerie focuses on small, manageable steps that fit into busy schedules so people can see real shifts over time.
How CBT and online sessions work together
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and depression. Sessions focus on short, practical exercises and homework that target specific problems like worry, low mood, or relationship conflicts.Problem-solving strategies are used alongside CBT to break big issues into manageable steps. That helps when someone faces caregiving stress, medical challenges, or major life changes and needs clear actions to move forward.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to choose techniques that fit their goals, daily routine, and comfort level. Together they check what’s helping and adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video is useful for more in-depth work and skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text are handy for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent amid a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English