About Yuridia
Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life changes. Yuridia speaks English and Spanish and uses several practical approaches to support clients during difficult moments.
She focuses on straightforward, person-centered work. Sessions tend to concentrate on what’s bothering someone now and what small steps can make daily life easier. Yuridia draws on both cognitive techniques and emotion-focused strategies to help people notice patterns and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her background combines long-term practice in community and clinical settings with an emphasis on building trust and clear communication. She works with issues like grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and career stress. She also supports people struggling with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and parenting challenges by helping them clarify goals and practice new skills.
Yuridia uses methods that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. These tools help address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in practical ways. She tailors sessions to each person’s needs and preferences rather than following a single formula.
For people who prefer remote care, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The subscription-based model lets clients schedule and manage sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by teaching practical ways to move forward despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and managing cravings or addictions. Attachment-Based Therapy concentrates on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions; it is helpful for intimacy issues, communication struggles, and attachment-related worries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Yuridia will review a person’s goals, strengths, and daily routines and suggest methods that fit those needs. She adjusts strategies as work progresses so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter reflections, and ongoing accountability between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish