About Valerie
Valerie Baker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with anxiety and related difficulties. She brings 19 years of experience to sessions and offers video calls and telephone work as part of her practice. Valerie aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion as they take steps towards change.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, stress, addictions, grief, anger and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Relationship difficulties and LGBT issues are also areas she addresses, along with challenges such as guilt, shame, abandonment and attachment problems. Valerie also focuses on problems often faced by young adults. Valerie uses attachment-based and psychodynamic approaches to understand patterns that affect relationships and emotional life.
These approaches help look at early influences and repeated patterns, so people can see how current difficulties link to past experiences. In sessions she talks things through with clients to build practical insight and clearer choices. Her style is calm and collaborative.
She tailors conversations and any plan to fit each person’s needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical so people can apply what they learn between meetings. Valerie works in English and provides several online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Attachment and Psychodynamic Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and reduce anxiety linked to attachment wounds.Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on repeated emotional patterns and how past experiences influence present behaviour. This approach can help with trauma, guilt, shame and problems that keep coming up in relationships and mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different ways of working and will help the person choose a method that fits their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and choices can be reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexible, accessible options for people who need different formats. Video calls let people read facial cues and work interactively. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins or a way to reflect outside scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful emotional work.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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