About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Zeiger is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Alabama with 15 years of clinical experience. She combines body-focused work with talk therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue.
She emphasizes practical skills and short, clear steps so people can feel steadier between sessions. Her approach blends somatic awareness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas. That means sessions may include noticing body sensations, clarifying values, and looking at how early relationship patterns show up now.
Background and approach
Valerie uses these methods to address relationship difficulties, communication problems, codependency, and challenges like addiction and anger. Clients who come for help with life changes, ADHD, or family-of-origin issues will find therapy that focuses on concrete tools. She teaches simple self-regulation techniques to interrupt the body's stress responses and help people return to a calmer state.
Sessions also cover problem-solving and small behavioral changes to make daily life more manageable. Dr. Zeiger values working at the client’s pace and treating the person as the expert on their own life.
She aims to uncover patterns that limit wellbeing and to build practical strategies that match each person's goals. The work is collaborative and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on real-world results. Therapy is offered in English and provided through a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the platform.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to body sensations and physical reactions. Online sessions can guide clients to notice breath, posture, and muscle tension so they can practice simple regulation skills at home. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters and taking small steps in that direction while accepting difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where values-driven action helps restore purpose.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques to a person’s needs and preferences. That may mean trying somatic exercises for a few sessions, shifting to values-focused ACT work, or combining attachment-based conversations about early relationship patterns with hands-on regulation practices.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Licensed professionals can coach clients through exercises in real time and provide written guidance to support progress outside appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English