About Corina
Corina Valdano is a counsellor who uses acceptance and commitment techniques alongside cognitive and behavioural tools to help people cope with anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. She speaks English and Spanish and practises from the United Kingdom. Her background spans 27 years supporting people through trauma, self-esteem struggles and the practical challenges of life change.
Corina keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She helps people notice what matters to them, learn skills to manage intense emotions, and experiment with small changes that feel achievable.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to each person, with space to reflect and try new ways of responding to difficult situations. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how early relationships affect current patterns. That can be useful for people dealing with abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, or problems rooted in attachment and boundaries.
She also offers help around body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and other long-term challenges. Over nearly three decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns including antisocial and avoidant personality patterns, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family strains, and codependency. Corina uses elements of dialectical behaviour approaches to teach emotion regulation skills when feelings become overwhelming.
She describes her role as collaborative: clients set priorities and she offers tools and steady support to reach them. Practical steps and clear goals are part of the process, alongside time to make sense of painful experiences.
Practical therapy approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps that match those values. It uses mindfulness and simple behavioural experiments to reduce struggling with unwanted thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical changes in behaviour. It is often used for anxiety, stress and low mood and gives concrete tools to manage symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current ways of relating and can help people address issues like abandonment, attachment difficulties and relational cycles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals, needs and preferences. That may mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting the pace so the client feels able to try new skills.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option; live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These choices give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and what works for the individual.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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 life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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