About Valarie
Valarie Collins is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 17 years of experience. She greets clients warmly and uses a straightforward, respectful style that focuses on practical steps. Valarie helps people manage things like stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and reactions after trauma.
She tailors sessions to the person and the presenting issue rather than using one fixed method. Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused.
How Valarie works
Valarie asks questions, offers suggestions, and provides reading or worksheets when those tools fit the work. Her common approaches include client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused tools, and trauma-focused strategies. Those methods are mixed as needed to address mood problems, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic, substance-related struggles, codependency, communication problems, and other concerns listed by the client.
Valarie brings experience from outpatient clinics, independent practice, rehabilitation and detox settings, intensive outpatient programs, and psychiatric hospital units. She has worked with individuals, groups, and couples in those settings and draws on that practical background during sessions. Sessions focus on identifying realistic goals, tracking progress, and building skills that can be used outside appointments.
People who want clear, practical steps with supportive listening may find her approach helpful.
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What Valarie works with
The areas below are the ones Valarie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes attuned listening and collaboration. In practice this looks like sessions that focus on the person's priorities, with the therapist reflecting concerns, validating experiences, and helping set meaningful goals that fit everyday life.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replace them with practical skills. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood disorders because it pairs discussion with exercises and homework that work well in between online sessions.
Motivational interviewing supports change by exploring a person's own reasons for change and strengthening motivation. It is often helpful for addictions, ambivalence about treatment, and when setting step-by-step goals for recovery.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques that match the client's goals, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients take part in choosing strategies and measuring progress together with the therapist.
Online therapy offers practical benefits through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using approaches like CBT and motivational interviewing effectively.
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