About Corina
Corina Valdano offers a practical, compassionate counselling style rooted in approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She speaks English and Spanish and works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, or major life changes. Corina draws on 27 years of experience to help clients find clearer ways forward.
Her sessions focus on what matters to each person.
Background and approach
She helps people notice patterns that cause distress and try small changes that build a different way of coping. Corina uses exercises, simple reflection, and short practical tasks between sessions to help new skills stick. Corina trained to a master's level in Third Generation Therapies and is HCPC registered.
That background informs a mix of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, along with attachment-focused work and client-centred listening. She also supports people with longer term or complex concerns such as chronic pain, caregiver stress, issues around adoption and foster care, attachment worries, and body image.
Her experience includes working with trauma responses and co-morbid issues, always aiming for steady, manageable steps rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered remotely in multiple formats to suit different needs. Corina encourages a collaborative approach - you set the goals and she helps you plan how to reach them.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small committed actions, even when anxiety or difficult thoughts are present. ACT is useful for stress, chronic worry, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing alternative behaviours through practical exercises. CBT helps with anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can be helpful for relationship worries and trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Corina will talk with each person about their goals, difficulties and preferences, and then suggest a mix of methods. This collaborative process means the therapy plan can change as needs evolve rather than being fixed from the start.
Online therapy offers real flexibility in how to engage. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and reflexive writing, and text messaging can provide short ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties, or travel, while still getting structured, goal-focused help from registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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