About Valerie
Valerie Savoie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience. She practices in Florida and brings a calm, practical approach to helping people manage stress, anxiety, life transitions, and self-esteem concerns. Her style is client-centered.
She focuses on building a respectful, balanced relationship where people can talk openly without judgment. Valerie helps clients identify what they want to change and teaches concrete skills to support that change.
How Valerie works
Sessions emphasize learning about personal patterns and setting realistic goals. Valerie uses a mix of methods including cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. She draws on these tools to help people break unhelpful thought patterns, manage intense emotions, and find small, achievable steps forward.
She also incorporates self-discovery approaches when useful to help people clarify values and purpose. Her clinical work often centers on stress, anxiety, coping with life changes, grief, sleep difficulties, workplace issues, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing challenges like body image, guilt, isolation, and parenting strain.
The aim is practical progress rather than quick fixes. Valerie notes that most of her scheduled hours fall on weekends, with some weekday evenings. She asks clients to provide a photo ID and contact information per licensing rules, and she communicates according to the scheduling and messaging practices she maintains.
Valerie lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| 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 sessions
Valerie often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space so people can explore what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework tasks.Finding the best approach is collaborative. She works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, short coaching, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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