About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Wolfe is a California psychologist with 35 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and depression. She focuses on practical support for people facing life changes and everyday pressures.
Her tone is calm and direct, and she aims to help people take manageable steps forward. She uses straightforward methods to address worry and sleeplessness. Sessions often focus on skills you can use between meetings, such as simple behavior changes, breathing and mindfulness exercises, and ways to change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy may be offered as another tool when appropriate. Her work centers on building self-compassion and stronger communication. That can include looking at attachment patterns, fear of abandonment, or control and commitment issues that get in the way of daily life.
She also supports people facing illness, caregiving stress, or the emotional impact of divorce and blended family concerns. Dr. Wolfe draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness approaches to tailor care to each person.
She aims to make strategies clear and usable rather than abstract or technical. Over time the goal is better sleep, reduced anxiety, and more reliable coping skills. Her practice offers multiple session formats to fit busy schedules, and she works with adults on personal growth and problem solving.
She brings decades of clinical experience and a practical focus to each person’s goals.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It uses mindful awareness and practical actions to reduce avoidance and build a life guided by chosen values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches concrete skills for anxiety, sleep, and mood, like activity scheduling and thought records. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills can be useful when stress or strong emotions interfere with daily life.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what feels most useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full sessions and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can provide brief check-ins or coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care around work, caregiving, or travel while using the therapies described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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