Prof. Valerie Starr, LCPC, LCMHC
Experienced counselor focused on body and relationships
About Valerie
Prof. Valerie Starr helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, depression, grief, and questions about intimacy. She also assists those facing addictions, issues around self-esteem, parenting challenges, and concerns tied to LGBT identity.
Valerie Starr is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 38 years of experience in the field. She uses a warm, person-focused style in sessions. Conversations are direct and respectful.
Background and approach
She avoids labels and treats each person as an individual with their own strengths and goals. This makes sessions feel practical and grounded. Valerie draws on somatic ideas alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches.
That means she pays attention to how the body, early relationships, and present experience link to emotions and patterns. She blends those perspectives to help people notice what keeps them stuck and try new ways of responding. Her background includes long work in community mental health and independent practice, and eleven years teaching graduate courses in family systems and ethics.
Those years informed her ability to explain issues clearly and to offer steady guidance through complex problems. In sessions she focuses on simple tools people can use between meetings. She helps people build practical skills for communication, emotion regulation, and problem solving.
The goal is clearer choices, more stable relationships, and better day-to-day coping. Valerie sees clients in Nevada and works with people across a broad range of life stages and concerns. She conducts sessions with attention to each person’s values and goals, and she invites clients to shape the pace and focus of the work.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds emotions. In online sessions this might mean noticing breath patterns, tension, posture, or small bodily responses to difficult memories and then using gentle, in-the-moment exercises to bring relief and awareness. This approach can help with trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. In a session the therapist helps people notice repetitive interaction styles and practice different ways of connecting. This can be useful for relationship difficulties, commitment worries, and trust issues.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on meeting each person with acceptance and listening. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helping them name priorities and move at a comfortable pace. This approach supports self-esteem, life transitions, and personal growth.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Over time the plan can shift as progress and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messages. That flexibility lets people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or long distances. It also makes it easier to try different tools between meetings and to stay connected consistently when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Nevada
- Languages
- English