About Valerie
Valerie Bryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years of experience in mental health care. She begins by listening closely to what a person brings and aims to help them find hope early in the work. Valerie mixes creativity and practical talk so people can start to feel understood and seen.
Her background includes registered art therapy, and she sometimes invites simple creative exercises. She may ask a person to have markers and paper nearby to map a problem, sketch feelings, or try a new perspective.
How Valerie works
No artistic skill is needed; the activity is a tool for thinking differently about a situation. Valerie uses a warm, human-centered style. She brings humor and compassion into sessions and addresses hard feelings directly rather than avoiding them.
She draws on Jungian ideas and other life outlooks that value balance and gratitude while also facing difficult inner material. People come to her for many concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy questions, grief, addictions, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also helps with parenting strain, career transitions, codependency, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are practical and grounded. Valerie helps people name patterns, try new ways of relating, and practise coping skills. She aims to guide toward greater self-knowledge, more satisfying relationships, and relief from long-held pain.
Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive and depth-oriented ideas. That mix supports both immediate coping and deeper exploration so people can move forward in their lives.
Valerie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Valerie works with
The areas below are the ones Valerie 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Valerie uses client-centered work to create a respectful, listening space where a person sets the pace and the therapist follows. This approach helps people who need acceptance, steady support, and a place to make sense of feelings before trying new steps.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. CBT offers simple, practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns in daily life.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Valerie will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That planning can shift as work progresses, with practical checks along the way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and texting can support short updates, journaling between sessions, or more frequent coaching-style contact. These options help people maintain regular work on their concerns while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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