About Valerie
Valerie Bryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years of experience in mental health. She brings a warm, human approach and a belief that hope can appear early in therapy. Valerie uses creativity alongside talk therapy to help people see problems differently and find practical steps forward.
Her sessions are relaxed and direct. She mixes gentle humor with compassion and asks simple, clear questions that help people name what feels wrong.
Background and approach
Valerie often invites clients to try drawing or mapping an issue with pen and paper to make feelings easier to talk about. No artistic skill is needed for these exercises. Valerie works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and relationship struggles.
She also addresses issues such as grief, addictions, self-esteem, body image, and career stress. Her practice pays attention to patterns from family of origin, abandonment, codependency, and control issues that can keep people stuck. Her therapeutic influences include Jungian ideas and attachment-based thinking, both of which value facing difficult feelings and finding inner balance.
She also draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods to create practical plans and new ways of thinking. Clients can expect a mix of reflection, practical exercises, and goal-focused steps. Valerie practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English.
She encourages people who are ready to change to try small experiments between sessions and to notice the shifts that follow.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Valerie draws on attachment-based ideas that focus on relationships and patterns of connection. This work helps people notice how past bonds shape current stress and anxiety, and it supports building new, healthier ways of relating. She also uses client-centered therapy which centers on listening, acceptance, and following each person's pace to find their own answers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, when used, focuses on practical steps - identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Valerie will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they like to work. Together they decide which blend of approaches feels most useful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual exercises, phone is useful when hands-free time is needed, live chat can suit short check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for matching the format to the work at hand.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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