About Valerie
Valerie Marsh is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of experience. She practices from Minnesota and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and related concerns. Valerie uses practical, calming methods that invite people to notice how their body and mind respond to stress.
Her approach blends somatic work with attachment-based and client-centered methods. Sessions often include simple breath and body awareness alongside talking through patterns that keep problems alive.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people test unhelpful thoughts and try safer behaviors. Valerie aims to create a down-to-earth space where people can learn new skills. She helps people build self-confidence, handle grief and loss, and navigate life changes.
Parents can get support for parenting stress and blended family challenges. She works with issues such as addiction, eating concerns, intimacy and sexual problems, mood disorders including bipolar, and anger and control struggles. Additional focuses include attachment wounds, codependency, infidelity, and forgiveness work.
Therapy can include coaching elements for career or life direction. Valerie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. All sessions are conducted in English and follow her Minnesota practice standards.
How Valerie’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Valerie combines somatic-informed techniques with attachment-based and client-centered approaches. Somatic work asks people to notice bodily sensations and gentle movement to reduce overwhelm and reconnect to safety; it can help with trauma, anxiety, and stress. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people learn new ways of relating when old patterns cause pain. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, offering a compassionate, nonjudgmental space to talk and make choices.Choosing the right approach usually happens together. Valerie listens to each person’s goals and tries methods that fit their needs and comfort level. She adapts techniques over time so the work stays useful and relevant to what someone wants to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for these methods. Video calls allow for conversation and some body-focused noticing, while phone sessions can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is busy or travel is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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