About Valerie
Valerie Girod is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of practice in Arizona. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Valerie aims to create respectful, compassionate conversations that help clients find workable next steps.
She focuses on common concerns such as stress and anxiety, depression, ADHD, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation. She also supports people facing relationship or intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with addiction and anger.
Background and approach
Valerie approaches each person as an individual and adapts conversations to their needs. In sessions she listens for practical patterns and routines that can be changed. Valerie helps clients break big problems into small, achievable steps.
She works with people to build confidence and steady coping skills rather than offering quick fixes. Her background includes more than two decades of clinical experience in Arizona. Valerie uses that experience to tailor a plan that fits each person's life and goals.
She treats people with sensitivity and respect while keeping the work focused and understandable. Clients who are ready to try talking with a steady, experienced counselor will find a direct and compassionate approach. Valerie encourages small, realistic changes and supports people as they practice new ways of handling stress and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Valerie uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach focuses on building routines and skills that improve concentration, time management, and everyday functioning for people managing ADHD and motivation difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Valerie collaborates with each person to weigh goals, preferences, and life demands, then adjusts methods over time. She explains options clearly and checks in regularly to see what is working and what should change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps with face-to-face conversation, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while maintaining steady progress with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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