About Valerie
Valerie Savoie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 28 years of experience. She uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress and anxiety and build confidence. Valerie speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She creates a calm space for people to share concerns without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding what you want to change and learning skills to get there. Valerie teaches tools for coping with life transitions, work stress, sleep problems, grief, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Her work draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and from mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness. She also uses solution-focused strategies to set clear, achievable goals and track small progress. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than sudden fixes.
Valerie has long experience helping with parenting strain, family conflict, and career pressures, and she brings that background into problem-solving and planning. She emphasizes self-discovery, including building self-esteem and addressing shame, guilt, or feelings of isolation. Practical skills, short-term strategies, and honest conversation are central to her sessions.
She helps people find ways to feel more capable in everyday life and to handle setbacks with more resilience.
Online approaches that fit your life
Valerie blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people make practical changes. Client-centered therapy means sessions focus on your goals and priorities, with the therapist listening and responding to what matters most to you. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete techniques to change them, which can help with anxiety, sleep, or workplace stress. Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and teaches ways to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance, useful for managing worry and coping with change.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Valerie collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day reality. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, so therapy stays practical and focused.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you hold fuller conversations and see nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings or weekends and to keep steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Colorado, Florida
- Languages
- English
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