About Valerie
Prof. Valerie Starr helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and addiction. She also supports those dealing with grief, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem issues, and identity questions related to LGBT experience.
Valerie is experienced and direct, offering a calm presence to guide practical change. She uses straightforward conversation and listening to understand what matters to each person. Valerie draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at close relationships and on Client-Centered methods that keep the client's goals front and center.
How Valerie works
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral tools to help people shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Valerie has 38 years working in community mental health and independent practice in Nevada. She has worked with people managing chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, aging issues, and attachment or developmental differences including autism and Asperger Syndrome.
She also brings experience with blended family dynamics, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Her background includes time teaching graduate courses in Family Systems Therapy and Ethics in the Counseling Profession.
Valerie holds both a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential - LCPC and LCMHC - and has spent decades helping people through transitions and loss. In sessions she prefers a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. She avoids labels and treats each person as an individual.
Conversations are practical, compassionate, and focused on steps that fit daily life.
Valerie lists 13 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 38 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how close relationships shape emotions and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says. In remote sessions the therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and support while the person names goals and next steps.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress unfolds, keeping the client's preferences in mind.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or people who prefer typing to talking. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and schedules while tailoring the format to what helps each person most.
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