About Valentina
Valentina Gasparro is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, depression, and struggles with sleep or self-esteem. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients take small, practical steps forward.
She brings 25 years of clinical experience in Illinois and works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, parenting challenges, anger, career questions, bipolar mood issues, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include guilt and shame, end-of-life and hospice counseling, infidelity, isolation, and issues around intimacy and self-love. Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods. Valentina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and tolerate difficult feelings.
She draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and closeness. She also uses client-centered listening and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotional regulation. Sessions typically include teaching practical skills, guided reflection, and simple exercises to practice between meetings.
She offers formats that fit different needs, such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Valentina speaks English and Italian and is available to international clients. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule through the Start Therapy button.
Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Valentina often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name what matters most and take small committed actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in relationships and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and change how they respond to closeness and conflict. These approaches can help with intimacy concerns, grief, jealousy, and rebuilding trust.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust methods over time. Clients often try a mix of short skills work and deeper relational conversation to see what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is convenient for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules and ways of working.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Italian
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