About Valerie
Valerie Girod is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Arizona with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She also supports individuals facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and grief.
She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Valerie adapts conversations and plans to fit what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
She encourages small, practical steps that build confidence and motivation over time. In sessions she talks through problem areas and helps people identify clearer goals. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work, aiming for skills that can be used outside of sessions.
Valerie pays attention to how stress, trauma, and burnout affect daily functioning and relationships. Clients can expect a collaborative tone where their values and preferences shape the plan. The work can include coping skills for anxiety, strategies for managing mood swings, and ways to repair or strengthen relationship patterns.
Valerie also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, or the challenges of living with ADHD. She emphasizes practical tools and steady progress. If someone is nervous about starting, she acknowledges that first step as an act of courage and meets people where they are.
How Valerie Uses Evidence-Based Tools Online
Valerie works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach she uses focuses on building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and activity-planning strategies that reduce overwhelm and improve focus. Another approach emphasizes mood regulation and behavioral change for depression and bipolar mood shifts - that often includes activity scheduling, routines, and simple tracking to notice patterns and make small adjustments.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Valerie collaborates with each person to identify what fits best based on their goals, history, and what feels manageable. She adjusts methods over time so the plan stays helpful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, moment-to-moment support, and a way to keep progress moving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English