About Valerie
Valerie Pinkney-Duke is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio. She offers approachable, steady support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, and related concerns. Her style is respectful and straightforward, focused on practical steps and personal strengths.
Valerie draws on 21 years of professional experience helping people cope with drug and alcohol addiction, relationship strain, anger, trauma, grief, and sleep problems. She has worked in both individual and group settings and aims to meet each person where they are.
Background and approach
Sessions are framed around the client’s goals and what feels realistic for their life. Her counseling emphasizes listening first, then building on what is already working. Valerie treats faith and personal beliefs as part of the conversation when clients wish to include them.
She encourages clear, honest dialogue and gentle accountability to support steady progress. Practical tools and short-term strategies are often used alongside conversations about longer-term change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas and solution-focused methods inform her work, helping people learn specific skills and small experiments that can reduce distress.
She supports people who want help with parenting stress, career challenges, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue. Valerie aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name their concerns and try new approaches. She invites clients to take the first step and offers steady support as they work toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions can introduce simple skill work such as tracking patterns, testing negative thoughts, and practicing behavioral experiments that reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clear goals and small steps. In remote sessions this often means identifying what is already working, setting one or two achievable tasks, and reviewing progress in the next meeting.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when video is difficult or bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, family, and daily life while using CBT and solution-focused tasks between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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