About Valerie
Valerie Pacheco is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in California with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stuck by offering steady, practical support. Valerie aims to make the first step easier for anyone nervous about starting therapy.
She listens without judgment and helps people name what feels hard. Common concerns she supports include stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
How Valerie works
Valerie also addresses issues like codependency, fertility and pregnancy-related worries, immigration concerns, workplace stress, and financial strain. Her sessions emphasize clear, practical tools. Valerie draws on client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness and narrative approaches are used to build awareness and reframe difficult stories people tell about themselves. Valerie works with motivation and decision-making through techniques like motivational interviewing. She often blends approaches so sessions match what each person needs that week.
This flexible style helps people manage panic attacks, postpartum challenges, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and issues tied to life purpose and self-love. People can expect straightforward conversation, coping strategies they can try between sessions, and planning around immediate concerns. Valerie supports step-by-step change and helps people build skills to handle setbacks and keep moving forward.
Valerie lists 6 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
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Fertility issues
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening closely, asking questions, and shaping sessions around each person's goals and values. This approach helps when someone needs a space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into concrete steps and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, panic, and unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness therapy adds simple awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adjust methods based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about techniques are made together so treatment feels useful and respectful of the client's pace.
Online formats offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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A practical next step
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