About Valerie
Valerie Farrell is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and grief. She practices in New York and describes therapy as a place to begin healing and find new direction. Valerie aims to help clients set practical steps and build emotional strength.
Her background includes long-term work with people dealing with substance use and complex trauma. She draws on a mix of approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered methods.
Background and approach
These shape how she tailors sessions to each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. Valerie uses hands-on strategies to manage distress, reduce anxious thinking, and support recovery from addiction.
She also helps people cope with grief, health-related stress, and identity or relationship concerns that feel overwhelming. Valerie pays attention to how early relationships and life events affect current patterns. That perspective guides exploration of attachment, boundaries, and repeated behaviors.
Mindfulness and practical cognitive tools are offered to help people change unhelpful habits in daily life. She describes therapy as collaborative and goal oriented. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge when needed, and a plan they can use between sessions.
The overall aim is clearer choices, more calm in day-to-day life, and stronger coping skills.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Valerie uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. That work helps people understand why they repeat certain behaviors and offers ways to try new approaches in relationships and self-care.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is practical for managing anxiety, reducing worry, and changing habits tied to addiction or avoidance.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Valerie works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most and what fits the client's preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face work and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people reflect between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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