About Valerie
Valerie Holcomb is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar concerns, relationship and family struggles, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Valerie works with a broad set of concerns and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. Her approach is warm and conversational. She listens first and adapts sessions to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Valerie uses a mix of methods including cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment practices, attachment-focused ideas, dialectical behavior tools, and client-centered care. Sessions focus on practical steps and building skills that fit daily life. Valerie has 18 years of experience in clinical settings.
That background includes work in inpatient hospitals, substance use disorder programs, community mental health clinics, schools, wilderness camps, and correctional facilities. She has also led groups and individual work related to PTSD and veteran support, and contributed to mental health advocacy efforts. People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the pace is set by their goals.
Valerie emphasizes forming a trusting relationship and helping clients move toward more independence and clearer choices. She aims to help people see their own potential and take steps that feel manageable. Valerie offers services in Texas and communicates in English.
She accepts international clients and uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and day-to-day functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.Valerie works collaboratively to figure out which approaches fit best. She will listen to your goals and suggest methods that match your needs. Deciding on an approach is a shared process and can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send brief updates, journal thoughts between sessions, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English