About Valerie
Valerie Marsh is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of clinical experience. She builds on practical tools and steady support to help people manage stress and anxiety. Valerie focuses on helping clients regain a sense of control and move toward clearer, more satisfying relationships.
She draws on practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thinking and respond differently to strong emotions.
Background and approach
Valerie also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current struggles. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with concrete skills to try between meetings. Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship problems.
She also supports those dealing with trauma, addictions, mood disorders, life transitions, and parenting strain. Valerie pays attention to patterns like codependency, communication problems, and commitment worries so clients can make clearer choices. Her style is warm and direct.
She helps people name what is getting in the way and teaches tools to manage distress in daily life. Valerie encourages steady progress through small, practical steps tailored to each person. Work with her typically includes skill building, tracking patterns, and practicing new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Valerie aims to help clients recover more joy, calm, and confidence as they move toward the goals that matter most to them.
Approaches that translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and emotional reactions; online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathetic listening to help people feel heard and choose their own path forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through short exercises and homework that work well in virtual sessions.Deciding which approach fits begins as a team effort. The therapist will ask about your goals, day-to-day challenges, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you’ll try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan so it matches your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging makes brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while still practicing skills and tracking progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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