About Vallerie
Dr. Vallerie Hancock helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. She also supports concerns like addiction, grief, intimacy-related questions, bipolar mood patterns, and LGBTQ-related issues.
She is an LPC, a licensed professional counselor practicing in Arizona with 15 years of clinical experience. Her sessions are direct and practical. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Conversations focus on what matters most to the person and on small steps that build better day-to-day coping.
How Vallerie works
Hancock draws on several therapy styles that fit different needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live according to their values.
She also uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to keep work grounded in what the client wants. She often helps people facing mood and anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse recovery, self-harm concerns, and issues tied to identity or career stress. She pays attention to life stage challenges commonly faced by young adults, women's issues, and people in high-stress jobs like first responders.
Sessions aim to build practical skills such as emotion regulation, safer coping with urges, managing seasonal mood shifts, and improving social confidence. Hancock supports clients who want to find purpose, strengthen self-love, or recover from sexual assault and domestic violence. The work moves at a pace the client chooses.
Vallerie lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Vallerie works with
The areas below are the ones Vallerie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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 | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take value-driven steps. It can be useful for anxiety, burnout, and life-direction issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thinking patterns that drive distress and practicing new behaviors to change mood and function. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and social anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then recommend which methods to try. Sessions are collaborative and may mix ACT, CBT, client-centered, or solution-focused techniques depending on what fits the client's situation.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are close to an in-person conversation and work well for focused skill practice. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while juggling work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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