About Valarie
Valarie Collins is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and addiction-related concerns. She brings 17 years of experience in mental health settings and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress. Valarie prefers straightforward conversation and collaborative goal-setting to guide each person forward.
She draws mainly on cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, blending techniques as needed. Sessions include questions, gentle suggestions, and relevant educational resources.
Background and approach
Valarie works with individuals on trauma, grief, relationship struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her background includes work in outpatient clinics, rehabilitation and detox programs, intensive outpatient services, and psychiatric hospital units. That range shaped a flexible approach that adapts to different challenges and stages of recovery.
She also has experience running groups and meeting with couples. During sessions she helps people identify goals and track progress together. Expect clear explanations, hands-on strategies, and homework when it supports change.
Valarie emphasizes practical tools that can be used between appointments to manage symptoms and coping skills. People who choose her often want a down-to-earth counselor who listens and offers concrete options. She aims to make the process collaborative so each person feels understood and involved in decisions about treatment.
Common approaches used in online sessions
Valarie frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thought patterns and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Motivational interviewing uses open questions and reflection to help people find their own reasons to change, which can be useful for addictions and ambivalence about treatment.She aims to match the approach to each person's needs. Finding the right method is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most workable. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you see nonverbal cues and work more directly on interpersonal skills. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat allows short, focused check-ins, while messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick questions between sessions. These options make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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