About Valerie
Valerie Holcomb is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She draws on 18 years of experience to offer steady, practical support for addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem issues. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth.
Sessions are conversational and focused on clear goals. Valerie listens closely and tailors the plan to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take action that fits those values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and building distress tolerance.
Valerie also draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen relationships and increase self-understanding. Together with clients she builds a practical path toward managing life changes, communication problems, coping after loss, and helping with caregiver stress. Her background includes many clinical settings over nearly two decades.
That range informs her flexible, realistic style. She focuses on creating a steady therapeutic partnership and moving at a pace that feels right for each person. People who want straightforward, compassionate support for anxiety and related concerns will find a collaborative approach that emphasizes real-world skills and lasting change.
How Valerie’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Valerie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. A focus on actions and simple exercises can fit well into short check-ins or ongoing messaging between sessions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems stuck. CBT work often includes clear, homework-style practice that can be reviewed in video sessions or through text-based exchanges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Valerie will discuss your goals and preferences and adapt methods so they match your needs. Clients often try a mix of strategies and adjust as they go, with the therapist guiding that choice.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how and when care happens. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or coaching-style guidance between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other life demands while working toward clear goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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