About Valenta
Dr. Valenta Ward-Gravely is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and ADHD.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find clearer routines and coping strategies. She creates a calm, culturally aware space for people from varied backgrounds. Sessions focus on what matters to the client now, whether that is improving sleep, handling grief, or managing anger.
Background and approach
She pays attention to communication patterns and attachment issues that often underlie recurring problems. Dr. Ward-Gravely uses plain talk and collaborative planning.
She draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce overwhelm and support concentration.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. Solution-focused steps are used to set achievable, short-term goals. Her experience includes work with neurodivergent people and those facing multicultural or aging-related concerns.
She also supports people dealing with process addictions, eating and sleeping issues, and compassion fatigue. The focus is always on practical skills that clients can use between sessions. People who reach out can expect a steady, respectful guide who listens first and designs plans together.
Dr. Ward-Gravely emphasizes resilience, clearer communication, and small, measurable progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Dr. Ward-Gravely often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and then tests small changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage compulsive patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and support focus during daily tasks.She approaches treatment collaboratively. Together with each person she assesses goals, preferences, and what feels workable. That shared planning guides which approaches are emphasized and how skills are practiced between sessions so therapy fits into real life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share updates, record small wins, and get brief coaching between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of care while working toward clearer routines and better coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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