About Valerie
Valerie Taylor offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety and major life changes. She focuses on everyday struggles like confidence, motivation and relationship tension. Valerie speaks plainly and helps people find small, useful steps forward when things feel overwhelming.
She draws on nearly two decades of experience to guide conversations toward clearer choices. Valerie uses Client-Centred Therapy to listen carefully and centre the person’s own goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behaviour.
How Valerie works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Valerie helps clients spot patterns, set realistic goals and try practical strategies between meetings. The work often involves short experiments, reflective questions and revisiting what helped in the past.
She has particular experience with concerns such as addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating struggles, anger, career worries, bipolar and depression. Additional areas of focus include attachment and relationship problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness and blended family issues. Valerie is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
She practises from the United Kingdom and runs sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s own experience. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection to help people clarify what matters and to build on their strengths. This approach is helpful for people who need time to talk things through and to feel heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and develop new habits. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, low mood and problems like anger or unhelpful coping patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will choose or combine methods that match the person’s needs and pace the work accordingly.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video calls suit fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can fit short updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life while keeping focus on practical progress.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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