About Yuridia
Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, and attention-related challenges like ADHD.
She keeps sessions straightforward and person-centered. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent and useful for daily life. She listens for patterns from early relationships and for ways thoughts or habits get in the way of goals.
Background and approach
Therapy draws on a mix of practical techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and commit to small changes.
Attachment-based ideas help make sense of repeating relationship struggles. Clients can expect tools for managing strong emotions and for improving communication. She also offers skills to handle sleep problems, anger, and stress linked to caregiving or illness.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Yuridia meets with people in both English and Spanish. Her practice in Florida includes support for those coping with trauma, loss, life transitions, and challenges tied to identity and body image.
She frames goals around realistic steps people can use between sessions.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them. It helps when worry or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, which can help with intimacy and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit each person's situation. Sessions are collaborative, and techniques can be adjusted over time depending on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, homework support, or shorter exchanges between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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