About Valerie
Valerie Marsh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 23 years of clinical experience. She helps people untangle stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges so they can find clearer footing and make steady progress toward their goals. Valerie uses approachable, practical steps in sessions and keeps the focus on what will make daily life easier.
She offers a calm, direct style that balances skill-building with listening. Valerie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She blends that with Attachment-Based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and with mindfulness practices to teach simple ways to manage stress in the moment. Sessions typically include short skill practice, honest conversation, and planning for real-world changes. Valerie pays attention to relationship patterns, boundaries, communication problems, and how past hurts affect present life.
She also supports people facing grief, career strain, addictive behaviors, and parenting stress. Her background in family systems informs how she sees patterns across relationships, even when working with one person. Valerie aims to help clients build stronger self-esteem, clearer priorities, and better emotional regulation.
She helps people break cycles that keep them stuck and find steps that feel manageable. Valerie practices from Minnesota and communicates in plain language. She encourages realistic goals and small, measurable changes.
If someone wants help sorting a mix of life stressors, relationship issues, or ADHD-related concerns, she offers practical guidance and steady support.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help identify recurring connection struggles and teach new ways to ask for support and set boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In virtual sessions this often means practicing short exercises, tracking patterns between meetings, and trying small experiments between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief, practical techniques to reduce reactivity and manage stress; online meetings can include guided practices and reminders to use them during busy days.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan over time based on what helps in real life.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing skill reinforcement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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