About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Zeiger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
She treats a wide range of personal struggles and aims to make therapy practical and approachable. Her style centers on helping people use their own strengths to move forward. She values simple, teachable tools that interrupt intense emotional and physical reactions.
How Valerie works
Sessions often include short, practical exercises to help people calm down and think more clearly in the moment. Dr. Zeiger combines several approaches to match each person’s needs.
She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and goals, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-informed work to address patterns that repeat in relationships. She also uses client-centered listening to make space for each person’s story. She has helped people cope with issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin concerns.
Her work includes support for first responder issues, substance use struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and the pain of separation or loss. Therapy is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Beginning therapy with Dr.
Zeiger involves a simple matching process and scheduling that fits the person’s life. She aims to teach skills people can use between sessions, so progress continues outside the appointment time.
Valerie lists 11 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
How different approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often focus on short exercises and goals people can try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down patterns of thinking and behavior that increase distress and then practices alternative ways of handling stress. CBT via video or messaging works well for homework and brief skill practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at repeated patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how past experiences shape current responses; online sessions can use conversation and reflective exercises to shift those patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That process may include trying a few techniques and adjusting over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and text messaging supports short updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practicing skills between sessions.
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