About Valerie
Valerie Carr is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience in mental health care. She practices in Florida and draws on 33 years of work helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship struggles. She approaches each person with respect and compassion.
Valerie adapts conversations and plans to the needs in the room. She listens first and then helps set clear, doable goals. Sessions focus on practical steps to feel steadier and make everyday life more manageable.
How Valerie works
Her work covers a broad range of concerns including mood disorders such as depression and bipolar symptoms, panic and phobias, sleep and eating problems, and challenges tied to caregiving or aging. She also supports people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, and the stresses that follow natural or human-caused disasters. Valerie uses several approaches to fit different needs.
She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused methods when appropriate. That mix helps people build coping skills and move toward concrete change. People who choose her often want straightforward help with daily stressors, recovery from loss or addiction, or clearer communication in their relationships.
Sessions aim to be practical, respectful, and paced to each person’s comfort level.
Valerie lists 5 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps people find their own solutions and strengths, which can help when stress, grief, or identity issues feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together. It uses clear exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, improve sleep, and break unhelpful patterns.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change. It uses respectful conversation to build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or starting healthier routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative process helps match tools to what actually feels useful for daily life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you keep face-to-face contact while avoiding travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, quick coping tips, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats give flexibility without changing the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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