About Valerie
Valerie Monteiro is an ACA counsellor with 21 years of clinical experience in Australia. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. Valerie uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies to help people manage daily challenges and reconnect with what matters to them.
She begins by listening to the situation clearly and calmly. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps that build confidence.
Background and approach
Valerie blends talk-based work with somatic awareness to help people notice how their body and emotions interact during stress or difficult memories. Her background includes long experience helping people with relationship and intimacy concerns. She works with those coping with family and blended-family difficulties, communication problems, commitment questions and separation.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, pain and caregiving strain. Valerie draws on a range of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to match the work to each person. For trauma and difficult memories she may incorporate EMDR where appropriate.
Her style is warm, respectful and direct, with a focus on realistic, doable changes. People often come for help with sleep and eating worries, anger, self‑esteem, career transitions and compassion fatigue. She also offers practical coaching for life changes and strategies for coping with attention differences.
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi for people based in Australia.
How Valerie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions using ACT often include exercises to try between meetings and practical skills for managing stress and avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. In video or phone sessions CBT work can include short behavioural experiments, thought records and clear homework tasks to practise in daily life.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Valerie works collaboratively to figure out which method or combination suits each person’s goals, needs and preferences. She will discuss options and tailor the online format to the way you prefer to work, whether that means more talk-based processing, teaching skills, or brief coaching tasks between sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial expressions and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, reflective writing or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health commitments while still using ACT, CBT or emotionally-focused work effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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