Valerie Farrell, LCSW

Valerie Farrell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience in New York. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and loss. Valerie uses a practical, person-focused style and aims to help clients find clearer direction and stronger coping skills.

Her work centers on listening carefully and tailoring conversation to each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape present reactions. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and mindfulness to build calmer moments in daily life.

Valerie has long experience supporting people with substance use and trauma-related concerns. She also addresses grief, chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image concerns, and issues linked to abandonment and attachment. Her background includes helping people cope with medical challenges such as cancer and long-term pain.

Sessions focus on setting practical goals and building skills that fit everyday life. Valerie blends short-term coaching tools with deeper work when needed. She aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices.

Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual. Therapy often includes learning new ways to manage strong emotions, improving communication, and building routines that support healing. People who want both practical strategies and thoughtful exploration may find her style helpful.

How her approaches work for online care

Valerie uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in her work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape how people relate now and can help with anxiety, feeling disconnected, or repeated relationship struggles. Cognitive behavioral work helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones, which often reduces stress and improves mood.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Valerie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific remote session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for check-ins from different locations. It can also allow shorter focused visits when a full hour is hard to arrange. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment and cognitive behavioral work to an online setting, using conversation, exercises, and mindfulness practices to support coping and day-to-day change.