About Valerie
Valerie Yost is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She uses clear, practical methods to help clients manage symptoms and make concrete changes. Valerie works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, and coping with life transitions.
Her main approach is cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and build new skills. She pairs that with problem-solving and emotional regulation techniques to make change feel doable.
How Valerie works
Sessions often focus on learning tools to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and repair patterns that cause conflict. Valerie has long experience supporting people dealing with illness, caregiving strain, hospice and end-of-life issues, and the emotional fallout from major health events. She also helps people facing betrayal, infidelity, sexual assault and abuse, and complicated family history concerns.
Her work includes issues such as codependency, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. Parents and caregivers can find practical strategies for managing parenting stress, blended family challenges, and caregiver burnout. She also addresses aging and geriatric concerns and life adjustments tied to cancer or chronic illness.
Clients meet with her from Florida and sessions are conducted in English. She offers a straightforward, skills-based style that aims to make emotional work feel manageable and relevant to everyday life.
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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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Using CBT and skill-based tools in online therapy
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replacing them with more helpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes and works well in a skills-focused format.Problem-solving techniques teach step-by-step ways to tackle specific life issues, such as caregiver strain, parenting decisions, or managing medical challenges. Emotional regulation strategies provide simple tools to calm intense feelings and respond differently in heated moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting strategies as progress is made. This helps make therapy practical and tuned to what feels useful in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can fit different schedules and needs. Video allows fuller face-to-face conversation, phone requires less bandwidth, chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing notes or brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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