About Valerie
Valerie Schmude is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and family concerns. Valerie meets each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She emphasizes clear, practical steps and steady support during hard moments. Valerie adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She helps people sort through grief, cope after trauma or abuse, and address codependency or phobias.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused and goal-oriented, with room to process feelings and try new skills. Her work often includes talking through what thoughts and behaviors get in the way of feeling better. She uses straightforward exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce worry.
When trauma is part of the story, she applies trauma-focused practices to help people move forward at a pace that feels manageable. Valerie also brings existential ideas into sessions, helping people consider meaning, values, and life direction when facing big questions. That perspective can help when anxiety or grief leaves someone feeling lost or stuck.
People who choose her tend to want a thoughtful, down-to-earth approach. Valerie supports clients as they try new ways of coping and rebuild trust in themselves. She encourages small, steady changes and helps track progress over time.
How Valerie’s approaches work in online sessions
Valerie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and try concrete strategies to reduce anxiety and worry. CBT sessions often focus on short, practical exercises and experiments you can use between meetings.She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when trauma or abuse is part of someone's history. That approach breaks down traumatic memories into manageable parts and pairs them with coping skills so the memories feel less overwhelming over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Valerie will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods that make sense. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you keep face-to-face contact while phone sessions can be a simpler check-in with less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These formats give flexibility so therapy can match a person’s schedule and comfort level.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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