About Valerie
Valerie Farrell is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of hands-on experience in New York. She brings a calm, practical presence to sessions and helps people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and life transitions. Valerie uses a combination of talk and body-focused methods to help clients notice what is happening in their minds and bodies.
Her approach blends somatic work with attachment-based and client-centered techniques. Sessions are grounded in everyday language and simple exercises that people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Valerie draws on cognitive behavioral and mindfulness ideas to help change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. She often addresses issues tied to long-term stress, chronic health concerns, and caregiving strain. Valerie also supports people dealing with bereavement, body image struggles, substance use concerns, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment.
The focus is practical: identify small steps, practice new responses, and lessen overwhelm. Therapy with Valerie is collaborative. She listens for each person’s priorities and then tailors conversation and activities to those goals.
Progress can include clearer boundaries, steadier moods, and tools for handling triggers. Valerie works from a trauma-aware stance and pays attention to how past relationships shape present reactions. Her background includes work across mental health and medical settings, and she integrates that experience into straightforward treatment plans.
She invites people to begin by naming one small change they want to try.
How Valerie’s Approaches Work Online
Somatic work helps people tune into body sensations and notice how tension, breath, and posture relate to stress. Online sessions can include guided attention to physical signals and simple movement or breathing practices that a person can do at home. Attachment-based therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns of closeness and safety, and it helps a person try new ways of relating in their daily life. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and goals, offering a nonjudgmental space where goals and pace are set together.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Valerie will talk with each person about what feels most useful and adjust methods as needs change. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize body-focused work, relational insight, or practical coping skills.
Online formats provide flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging offer alternatives when video is not possible. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit sessions into everyday life, while still practicing skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English