About Valerie
Prof. Valerie Starr helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, parenting strain, LGBT concerns, anger, and a wide range of attachment and communication issues.
Valerie is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 38 years of practice experience in Nevada. Her approach is warm and person-centered.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding each person’s story and practical steps to feel better. She listens without judgment and works with clients to set realistic goals and small changes that matter day to day. Valerie draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships shape reactions.
She also uses client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on what matters to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills. She has a long history in both community mental health and independent practice, and she spent eleven years teaching graduate-level family systems and ethics at a college level.
That background informs how she blends theory with practical skills for everyday life. Sessions can include conversational work, practical behavior changes, and therapeutic techniques that match the client’s comfort and goals. Valerie accepts international clients and conducts work in English.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help identify patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of relating, which is useful for anxiety, intimacy concerns, and attachment problems.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and on the client’s own priorities. In video or phone sessions the therapist follows the client’s lead, offering empathy and reflection to help people clarify goals and make choices that suit them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online work often uses short practical exercises, homework, and step-by-step skills to reduce worry, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods, then tailor the plan together. That shared decision-making helps shape a clear, workable path forward.
Online formats give flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging works well for short check-ins, journaling, or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist 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
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