Valerie Farrell, LCSW

Valerie Farrell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and trauma. She practices in New York and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions. Valerie aims to help clients find clearer direction and build practical coping skills.

Her approach is straightforward and compassionate. She listens first to understand each person's history and goals. Then she helps set small, concrete steps clients can try between sessions. Valerie uses a mix of talking therapies and mindfulness practices to address immediate problems and long-standing patterns.

She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Attachment-based work helps address how early relationships affect current reactions. Client-centered methods keep the focus on each person's priorities and pace.

Valerie has long experience with substance use and addiction issues, and she combines motivational interviewing with practical planning to support change. She also works with challenges around chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, and eating-related concerns. Her work includes grief, dissociation, and communication difficulties.

Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Valerie describes starting therapy as a step toward clearer choices, and she helps people set manageable goals and build emotional resilience.

How Valerie’s Approaches Work Online

Valerie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thoughts that lead to distress and trying practical experiments to change behavior and feeling; it can help with anxiety, stress, and addictive patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape reactions today and helps people learn new ways of relating and responding when old patterns show up.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means checking in, adjusting techniques, and combining approaches when useful so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a single method.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when less bandwidth is available, live chat is helpful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.