About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Zeiger is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of clinical experience in Alabama. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and addictions.
She emphasizes strengths and practical steps that feel doable for busy lives. She starts by listening closely to each person’s story and priorities. Sessions are collaborative and built around the client’s goals.
She believes people already carry resources that can be used to face current challenges and to move toward a more meaningful life.
Background and approach
Her approach blends evidence-based methods and relational work. She helps clients spot repeating patterns, unhelpful thinking, and emotional reactions that get in the way. Then she introduces simple skills for self-regulation to calm the body and refocus attention.
Dr. Zeiger draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take concrete steps. She uses cognitive strategies to reframe thinking and emotionally focused techniques to improve connection to feelings.
Attachment-informed work helps when past relationships shape present reactions. People who come for help with relationship stresses, codependency, commitment or communication problems often find practical tools and clearer perspective. She also addresses first responder issues, family of origin concerns, and problems linked to substance use.
Her style is direct yet compassionate, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Dr. Zeiger uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT combines noticing thoughts without getting stuck and committing to actions that match personal priorities, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT provides concrete tools for managing panic, low mood, and distressing thoughts, and those tools work well in short exercises during video or phone sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work rather than a one-time decision. Dr. Zeiger will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, symptoms, and daily life. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps in real situations.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These formats make it easier to practice skills between sessions and bring real-life challenges into therapy for hands-on problem solving.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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