About Valerie
Valerie Girod is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or unsure about next steps in life. Valerie works with adults on relationship concerns, parenting challenges, self-esteem, motivation, and issues like grief, trauma, and addiction.
She aims for respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care. Conversations and plans are adapted to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Valerie encourages small, practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. In sessions she listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them. That can include setting short-term goals, trying new coping strategies, or figuring out how to handle difficult interactions.
She also supports people working through big changes like career transitions or ongoing mood shifts. Valerie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work, matching approaches to the concern and the person. She emphasizes collaboration so people feel involved in decisions about their care.
The aim is steady progress you can see in everyday routines and relationships. Her practice in Arizona reflects more than two decades of hands-on experience. Valerie recognizes that starting therapy takes courage, and she frames the first steps as part of a shared effort toward clearer thinking and better coping.
How Valerie Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Valerie uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world coping and behavior. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, teaching specific skills for managing anxiety and low mood. Another method emphasizes learning and practicing coping strategies for stress, trauma responses, and addictive behaviors so daily life feels more manageable.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Valerie works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She will adjust methods over time based on what is working and what the person finds helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps build rapport, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and more frequent contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other commitments while still working with licensed professionals and therapists focused on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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