About Valentina
Valentina Gasparro helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. She supports concerns like grief, addiction, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, intimacy issues, sleep problems, and life transitions. Valentina writes and talks plainly about goals so families and individuals can understand the steps ahead.
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC with 25 years of experience in clinical work. Her style is warm and practical.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings and on understanding the patterns that keep problems going. Valentina blends several approaches to match a person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Attachment-informed work looks at how relationship patterns affect feelings and behavior. Client-centered techniques center the person’s experience and pace. Her work also incorporates tools from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and from emotionally-focused therapy when addressing close relationships.
Valentina uses mindfulness, meditative exercises, and solution-focused steps to make progress manageable and concrete. She offers services in English and Italian and accepts international clients. Sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.
How online approaches like ACT and attachment work
Valentina often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions.She also integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past and current relationships shape emotional responses. This work helps people notice familiar patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating when those patterns cause pain.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose techniques that fit the client’s needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when seeing nonverbal cues matters, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching or brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Italian