Valerie Engel

Valerie Engel offers a calm, steady presence for people facing eating and food-related issues and other life challenges. She listens closely and helps clients notice their strengths. Sessions focus on practical skills to manage stress, sleeping problems, difficult thoughts, and relationship strain.

Valerie uses straightforward methods to help people make small changes that add up. She works on clear strategies for coping, improving communication, and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns. Conversations are aimed at building skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Her background began in addiction and recovery counseling in 2007, and she added mental health therapy in 2017. That mix gives her long experience with co-occurring concerns such as substance use and mood symptoms. She has treated trauma, grief, caregiving stress, and sleep difficulties across varied clinical settings.

Clinical tools Valerie draws on include client-centered conversations and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns and try new behaviors. She also uses mindfulness and stress reduction practices when they fit a person’s goals. The focus is on what helps someone function better day to day.

Valerie is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, practicing in Washington. She aims to help people regain a sense of control and clearer decision making during transitions and after loss.

Approaches that guide online work

Valerie draws on client-centered therapy to create a listening, respectful space where a person’s goals guide each session. This approach focuses on understanding a person’s experience and reflecting it back so they can access their own strengths.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and then tests new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for mood concerns, sleep issues, anxiety, and changing habits around food and self-care.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Valerie will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what is or isn’t helping.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how meetings are arranged. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow more flexible scheduling for brief check-ins or regular work on skills. It can also make it simpler to continue care during life transitions while focusing on practical steps and coping strategies.