About Valerie
Valerie Holcomb is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She also supports those facing grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and life changes. Valerie brings 18 years of clinical experience to her work and accepts international clients for online sessions.
Her style is warm, interactive, and down-to-earth. She listens first and follows the client’s pace.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and building skills that fit daily life, not on labels or judgement. Valerie blends several approaches to suit each person’s needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She draws on acceptance-based strategies to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to strengthen relationships and emotional regulation. She has worked across many settings, including hospitals, substance use treatment programs, community clinics, schools, wilderness programs, and correctional facilities.
That variety helped her learn to adapt plans for people with different life circumstances and levels of motivation. In sessions clients can expect clear goals, skills practice, and thoughtful conversation about triggers and coping strategies. Valerie aims to help people find more control over daily life and build toward lasting change.
Outside of clinical work she has volunteered extensively with veterans and with local and state mental health advocacy groups. That community involvement informs her commitment to practical support and ongoing learning.
Practical therapies for anxiety, phobias, and relationships
Valerie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address anxiety, phobias, depression, and unhelpful behavior patterns. CBT focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, with concrete exercises you can try between sessions. ACT helps people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match personal values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses and safety in close connections. This approach can help people improve communication, repair trust, and manage emotional triggers tied to attachment patterns.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that match those goals and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and skill reminders easy. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel, and make regular support more reachable.
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What this therapist 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
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