About Valerie
Valerie Holcomb helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, mood disorders, relationship struggles, grief, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She is an LPC with 18 years of experience and offers a calm, respectful presence for people ready to make changes. Her style is warm and interactive.
She listens first and adapts sessions to each person's needs. Conversations are practical and focused on real-life steps rather than jargon.
How Valerie works
Valerie aims to build a working relationship and set a comfortable pace toward greater independence. Valerie draws on several therapy methods, including ACT, attachment-based work, client-centered therapy, CBT, and DBT. She uses tools from these approaches to help with coping skills, mood management, and relationship patterns.
Sessions often include exercises, practice between meetings, and check-ins about progress. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient treatment settings, community mental health, schools, challenge programs, and correctional facilities. She has substantial experience supporting people after physical trauma or emotional abuse and has done volunteer work with veteran-focused groups and mental health advocacy organizations.
People who choose Valerie can expect straightforward coaching alongside therapeutic work. She focuses on helping clients notice patterns, try small changes, and build strengths. The overall goal is clearer choices and more satisfying day-to-day living.
Valerie lists 11 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It uses values and small actions to guide change and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating, which can help intimacy and communication problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Valerie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying techniques from different approaches and adjusting what’s used as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises that use face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are convenient for brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, travel, or other commitments.
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