About Valerie
Valerie Finn is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief and everyday family pressures. She works with issues such as parenting concerns, self-esteem, relationship worries, depression and ADHD-related struggles. Valerie speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and individuals.
She uses a collaborative style that adapts to each person. Sessions begin by hearing what matters most and setting small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped to suit the person's pace and comfort, with an emphasis on clear steps to try between meetings. Valerie draws on Client-Centred Therapy to create an accepting space where people can speak openly about difficult feelings. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact, to help people try different ways of coping.
Solution-Focused Therapy helps keep work focused on short-term changes and achievable goals. With four years of professional experience, Valerie has supported people through loss, shifting life roles and family conflict. She prioritises respect and sensitivity and explains options plainly so people can choose what fits them.
Her BACP credential is noted as part of her background. People who prefer online options can work with her by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. International clients who speak English may also arrange sessions.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step is used to set up the first session.
How Valerie’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy is about listening and reflecting so people feel heard. Online sessions provide the same focus on understanding a person’s experience and priorities, which helps when discussing family pressures, grief or low confidence.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try small, practical experiments. Used online, CBT can include guided exercises, homework tasks and short check-ins between sessions to monitor progress.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on clear, short-term goals and on steps that move someone toward those goals. This approach suits online work well because it keeps sessions action-orientated and outcome-focused.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest a plan to try. People can change direction if something does not fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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