About Valerie
Valerie Monteiro is an ACA counsellor practising in Australia with 21 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, steady presence to sessions and focuses on helping people move through stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Valerie speaks English and Hindi and uses a blend of approaches to meet each person’s needs.
Her work covers relationship and intimacy-related issues as well as challenges like eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue.
How Valerie works
She also helps people navigate career stress, major life changes and the practical strains of parenting. There is additional focus on attachment issues, blended family concerns, first responder stress and the emotional effects of chronic illness and cancer. Valerie draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and EMDR to tailor sessions.
She aims for clear, practical steps alongside space to process difficult emotions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person’s readiness. People meet Valerie for both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work.
Her style is respectful, direct and compassionate, emphasising real-world tools you can use between sessions. She encourages small experiments and adjustments that add up over time. If someone wants to begin, the process involves a short questionnaire and an initial scheduling step.
Valerie works remotely and structures sessions to fit into busy lives while focusing on what matters most to the client.
Valerie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English, Hindi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes because it focuses on small, workable shifts in behaviour. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) supports processing traumatic memories by using structured sets of attention and memory work to reduce the intensity of distressing memories.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Valerie will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or combine methods so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and medical appointments while keeping continuity of care with an appropriately qualified therapist.
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