Valerie Bryan is a licensed professional counselor with 37 years in mental health care.
01About Valerie
Valerie Bryan is a licensed professional counselor with 37 years in mental health care. She blends talk therapy with creative methods drawn from her background in art therapy. Valerie aims to help people find hope and practical ways forward early in the work together.
Her style is warm and human-centered. She uses humor and compassion and invites straightforward conversation about what is painful. Valerie draws on Jungian ideas and some Native American spiritual perspectives to encourage balance, gratitude, and facing hard feelings rather than avoiding them.
Background and approach
Creative expression is part of sessions at times. She may ask clients to use simple drawing materials to map a problem, name emotions, or try a new viewpoint. No artistic skill is needed; the activities are tools for clarity rather than art lessons.
Valerie works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, and self-esteem. She also addresses family of origin concerns, body image, caregiving stress, codependency, and life transitions such as divorce or aging. Sessions combine practical problem solving with attention to inner meaning and patterns.
Valerie helps people notice what keeps them stuck and build coping that fits their life. Her aim is for clients to leave feeling more hopeful, clearer about next steps, and better able to care for themselves. Based in Texas, she offers help in English and includes coaching-style guidance when appropriate.
Valerie encourages an open, curious stance and partners with clients on steady, realistic change.
02Credentials
- LPC (Texas)
- License 9269 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1720196132 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Valerie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Valerie names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Valerie names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Valerie uses attachment-based ideas and client-centered work to build a supportive online relationship. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people shift patterns that cause pain. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping clients find their own solutions through an accepting, nonjudgmental stance.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or depression and test small changes to reduce distress. These approaches work well together online because they let a therapist listen closely, guide experiments in thinking and behavior, and reflect what a client brings up in the moment. Valerie treats choice of approach as a collaborative decision and will help clients figure out what fits their goals, needs, and preferences as they go.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a deeper conversational feel and visual connection, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when a written format helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what helps most.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, self-esteem, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related issues among other topics.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and human-centered, using humor and compassion alongside practical problem solving and occasional creative exercises.
What is her background and experience?
She has 37 years of counseling experience and brings a background in registered art therapy to integrate creative techniques into sessions.
What credentials and location information are on file?
She is listed as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - and practices from Texas.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she use?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.
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