About Valerie
Valerie Yost is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She welcomes straightforward conversation and aims to build a working relationship where people feel heard and understood. Her work focuses on practical tools.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep worries going. She also draws on problem-solving techniques and emotional regulation strategies to tackle immediate challenges.
Background and approach
Valerie has long worked with people facing depression, grief, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and medical or caregiving stress. She also supports those dealing with intimacy issues, parenting strains, bipolar mood concerns, and the complicated feelings that come with divorce or blended families.
Additional experience includes helping people through end-of-life and hospice concerns, cancer and caregiver stress, and struggles with guilt, shame, or forgiveness. In sessions she aims for clear, practical steps. Conversations focus on what to try between meetings and how to measure small changes.
She encourages people to notice what works and to adapt methods to fit their daily life. Valerie practices in Florida and offers therapy in English. Her style is steady and collaborative, and she helps people sort their priorities so they can feel more able to cope with whatever comes next.
Using CBT online to manage anxiety and life stress
Valerie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thought patterns that increase anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises and small behavioral changes that can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.She also uses problem-solving strategies to break down immediate challenges into manageable steps. This approach helps when people feel stuck by giving clear next steps and measurable targets to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie collaborates with each person to shape a plan that fits their goals, needs, and what feels doable. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and as priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when desired. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief touchpoints for follow-up, scheduling, or quick coping ideas. Together these options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working through anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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