About Yuridia
Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Her style is practical and straightforward, with an emphasis on steady progress and clearer day-to-day coping.
She offers a calm space for people to talk through difficult emotions and painful memories. Sessions focus on building skills for handling strong feelings, improving communication, and managing sleep or substance-related concerns.
How Yuridia works
She also helps people facing grief, career shifts, and questions about intimacy and relationships. Yuridia uses several evidence-based approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral methods to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people live with uncomfortable feelings while focusing on valued actions. Attachment-based work and client-centered techniques guide conversations about connection and how early relationships shape current patterns. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when people need concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to support bilingual clients in Florida. Practical matters are kept simple: therapy can be scheduled by completing the Start Therapy steps and then choosing times that fit. Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what works for their routine.
She aims to partner with each person to set clear goals, try useful strategies between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Yuridia lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Yuridia works with
The areas below are the ones Yuridia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then committing to actions that match what matters to you. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete steps to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful thinking. It can be useful for anxiety, sleep issues, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and communicating, and it can help with relationship struggles, intimacy issues, and patterns tied to abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Then they will try methods that fit the situation and adjust the plan as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging can fit brief updates or when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping treatment consistent.
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