About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Zeiger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) working in Alabama with 15 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and addictions.
She approaches therapy as a partnership and centers the person’s strengths in each step. She believes people already hold knowledge about their lives and that therapy helps bring that forward. Sessions include practical tools to manage intense feelings and to interrupt the body’s stress response.
Background and approach
She teaches self-regulation skills that can be used between sessions. Her work blends several methods to fit each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports taking steps toward a meaningful life even when feelings are difficult. Attachment-based ideas are used when early relationships affect current behavior and reactions. Dr.
Zeiger also draws on emotionally-focused and client-centered approaches to create space for emotion and personal goals. She offers straightforward guidance and helps people spot patterns that get in the way of change. The goal is to build daily practices that reduce overwhelm and improve coping.
People come to her for help with relationship concerns, anger, low self-esteem, addiction, and major life changes. She works to tailor an approach that fits each person’s situation and values. Starting therapy is framed as a step toward a more manageable, purposeful life.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward values-driven goals. Online ACT sessions focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing short exercises, and setting small behavior-based goals to try between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that increase anxiety and depression. In remote CBT sessions, a therapist and client write down thoughts and test new behaviors together, then review what worked in the next meeting.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up in current connections. Online work can include mapping those patterns, naming triggers, and trying new ways of relating in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That process is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video makes it easier to read facial cues and try exercises together. Phone can fit a short check-in when bandwidth or video isn’t ideal. Live chat and messaging let people send updates or practice skills between sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit around work, school, or caregiving duties.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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