About Velvalee
Dr. Velvalee Reid is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience. She centers her work on practical steps people can use to reduce stress and handle anxiety.
Dr. Reid emphasizes strengths and helps clients take manageable steps toward a more satisfying life. She focuses on relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges.
She also helps with grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem.
How Velvalee works
Additional areas include blended family concerns, codependency, substance issues, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. In sessions she treats each person as the expert in their own story. She asks questions, listens closely, and helps people name clear goals.
From there she and the client try out techniques together to ease symptoms and improve daily functioning. Her work draws on practical methods like cognitive behavioral approaches, emotion-focused work, the Gottman Method for relationship patterns, mindfulness practices, and hypnotherapy when appropriate. These tools are used to change unhelpful patterns and build better ways of relating and coping.
People who come to her should expect a steady, experienced guide who values strengths and small steps. She supports people through both immediate problems and longer-term change. The aim is clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and stronger day-to-day coping.
Velvalee lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Velvalee works with
The areas below are the ones Velvalee 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Online approaches for relationship and anxiety work
Dr. Reid uses cognitive behavioral work to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going. CBT often includes practical exercises and short experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address relationship patterns and attachment-related concerns. EFT focuses on how emotions drive interactions and helps people recognize and shift those patterns toward more stable connection and clearer communication.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then try methods that fit the client’s needs. Adjustments are made along the way so the work remains practical and relevant.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and relationship work, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for brief updates or between-session coaching. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using proven techniques.
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