About Valeri
Valeri Bennett is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with 16 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She also supports clients working on relationships, family concerns, self-esteem, and motivation.
Her approach centers on the client as the expert in their own story. She listens for strengths and builds on them. Sessions aim to help people make small, practical changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Valeri uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, client-centered work, and EMDR when appropriate. That variety lets her combine tools for emotional coping, behavior change, and processing difficult memories.
In the room she keeps things straightforward and collaborative. Conversations focus on what is actually causing stress or anxiety and on steps that can reduce that pressure. People can expect clear explanations and down-to-earth strategies to try between sessions.
Her background includes many years working with issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment questions, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. She also has experience addressing body image, chronic illness and pain, substance and co-occurring concerns, and communication or commitment problems. This range informs a practical, flexible style of care.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety or low mood, then practicing alternative responses to change those patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Valeri will work together with each person to pick or blend methods that fit goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes trying techniques in session and adjusting them based on what works in everyday life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, step-by-step skill practice, or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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