About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Glass is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on making therapy straightforward and useful for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues.
She also helps with concerns around gender and sexual identity, intimacy, and life changes. She holds a doctorate in marriage and family therapy and teaches students training to become therapists. That mix of teaching and clinical work keeps her approach current and practical.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together to set clear goals. Her style centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered techniques to prioritize each person’s values and goals.
Narrative ideas help people reframe difficult stories, and solution-focused methods aim for small, achievable steps forward. Dr. Glass has worked across many settings over 20 years, so she’s familiar with a broad range of life situations.
She helps people who want support processing grief, managing mood and energy, coping with trauma, or finding new ways to handle anger and stress. She also offers guidance around sexuality and relationship structures, including BDSM and polyamory, and supports parents and people dealing with family-of-origin patterns. Her work with LGBT and women’s issues informs how she frames options and next steps.
Therapy with Dr. Glass tends to be collaborative and down-to-earth. She focuses on understanding where someone is now, clarifying desired change, and mapping simple, practical steps to get there.
How client-centered and narrative methods work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely to each person and reflecting what matters to them. In practice this means sessions usually begin with the therapist asking about immediate concerns and priorities, and then following the client's lead to explore what feels most important.Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories and look for alternate ways to describe their lives. This can be useful for anxiety, identity questions, relationship troubles, and family-of-origin patterns because it opens space for new meanings and choices.
Solution-focused work emphasizes small, concrete steps that move someone toward their goals. It’s often used alongside client-centered or narrative work to set short-term goals and track progress week to week.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Dr. Glass treats that as a collaborative conversation. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past, then try approaches that fit those needs and adjust them over time.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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