About Valerie
Prof. Valerie Starr helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and issues with intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports concerns related to parenting, LGBT matters, anger, and communication problems.
Valerie Starr holds NV LCPC and NH LCMHC credentials and brings decades of experience to sessions. Her approach is warm and person-centered. She focuses on meeting each person where they are and listening without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to build insight, practical skills, and stronger emotional connection to what matters most. Over a 38 year career she has worked in community mental health and independent practice. She has helped people recover from loss and trauma and those seeking clearer self-understanding and life direction.
She also taught graduate courses in family systems therapy and ethics for eleven years as an adjunct professor. In sessions she combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques. She may also use existential perspectives and hypnotherapy where appropriate.
The goal is to tailor methods to each person’s concerns and goals. People can expect thoughtful conversation and practical suggestions. Valerie honors individual choices and works collaboratively to strengthen coping and resilience.
She aims to help clients move toward greater well-being and more satisfying relationships.
Online approaches that fit your life and concerns
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns in closeness and trust and can be useful for relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and attachment issues.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and choices. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is said, and supports the client’s own path toward change and clearer self-understanding.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep distress going. It offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Picking the right approach is part of the work together. Valerie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and help decide which methods to use. The process is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and have a more face-to-face feel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, flexible ways to check in between longer sessions or for people who find writing easier than speaking.
These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and to access from different places, while allowing licensed professionals to use the same therapeutic tools they would in person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Nevada
- Languages
- English