About Corina
Corina Valdano offers practical, experience-led therapy that draws on acceptance and cognitive approaches. She uses straightforward conversation and skills work to help people manage stress, anxiety, difficult relationships, trauma and low self‑esteem. Corina's style is calm and focused on small, achievable steps.
She has 27 years working in mental health and is registered with the HCPC. That background means she has supported people through long periods of worry, major life changes and recovery after abuse.
How Corina works
Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while building stronger coping tools for the future. Corina blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-informed ways of working. She also uses client-centred and dialectical approaches where they fit the person’s needs.
In practice this looks like noticing unhelpful thoughts, learning new ways to respond to feelings, and exploring how early relationships shape present difficulties. People often come to her for help with abandonment and attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress and the emotional effects of ageing.
She also supports people affected by trauma, co‑occurring conditions and complex personality concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are available to people in the United Kingdom and overseas. Corina encourages a collaborative pace and works with each person to set clear, realistic goals for therapy.
Corina lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Corina works with
The areas below are the ones Corina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | HCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being led by them. It emphasises values and small committed actions to build a life that matters, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical skills to change them, often focusing on tasks between sessions to speed progress. Attachment‑based work explores how early relationship experiences shape current patterns and feelings, helping people repair or change unhelpful interpersonal habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Corina collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their aims and situation. She adapts techniques from different approaches as needed rather than using a single fixed method, so therapy fits the client's goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow visual connection and longer sessions, phone work can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check‑ins and text messaging helps with brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while maintaining a steady course of support.
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