About Valenta
Dr. Valenta Ward-Gravely is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and relationship or family concerns.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make sessions feel manageable and relevant for everyday life. She uses approaches that center the person and build clear skills. That often means listening first, then helping people notice patterns, try small behavior changes, and set doable goals.
How Valenta works
Sessions commonly include tools for coping with grief, sleep and eating problems, anger, and low self-esteem. Dr. Ward-Gravely brings a long history of supporting people through transitions and major life changes.
She also addresses identity and multicultural issues, LGBTQ concerns, parenting strains, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes work related to adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and substance or process addictions. Her methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies.
These approaches are used in ways that match each person’s needs and pace. She emphasizes clear steps and achievable changes rather than long lists of jargon. People meet with her in formats that fit modern life: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Valenta lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Valenta works with
The areas below are the ones Valenta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. It involves active listening, asking about what matters most, and adapting sessions to a person’s pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and time to make sense of things. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses clear exercises and small behavior changes to tackle anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and some addictive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they decide whether to use client-centered listening, CBT skills, or a blend of methods to match the issue and the person’s style.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills that use visual examples. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging lets people check in between sessions or use written check-ins when talking live is hard. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the therapist’s chosen approaches.
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