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Valerie Girod, LPC

  • Experience23 years
  • LocationArizona
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Relationship
  • LanguagesEnglish
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About Valerie

Valerie Girod is an Arizona-licensed LPC with 23 years of professional experience who works with people managing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a range of relationship and life concerns.

Background and approach

She centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her practice and adapts conversations and treatment plans to reflect each person’s specific needs and goals. Valerie emphasizes practical support for challenges such as parenting, self-esteem, motivation, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar symptoms, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.

Clients can expect a tailored, collaborative process in which the therapist adjusts techniques and pacing to fit individual circumstances. Valerie encourages those taking the initial step toward therapy and acknowledges the courage that involves.

With a focus on building confidence and improving coping during life changes, she brings long experience to help people explore patterns, strengthen resilience, and pursue healthier ways of relating and functioning in daily life.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Flexible Online Care



Although Valerie describes her work using evidence-based therapeutic techniques broadly, common approaches used in similar practices include cognitive-behavioral interventions that help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related difficulties. These techniques focus on skills such as problem solving, organization, and managing stress responses. Another frequently used approach involves emotion-focused or trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful experiences, build emotional awareness, and improve relationship-related functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist collaborates with each person to determine what fits best. Together they review needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods over time so the plan stays relevant and effective as circumstances change.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and access support from home. These formats offer flexibility for ongoing skill practice, real-time problem solving, and check-ins between sessions while allowing licensed professionals to tailor pacing and communication style to individual comfort and goals.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Valerie commonly address?
She works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar, career matters, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring dialogue and treatment to each person. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on practical coping and personal goals.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 23 years of professional work experience to her practice, applying long-term clinical experience to diverse mental health and life-transition issues.
What credentials and location does she hold?
She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with licensure details AZ LPC LPC-2537.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Her practice is conducted in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Experience

23+ years

Licensed

Arizona

Languages

English

About

Valerie Girod is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Arizona, with 23 years of experience, currently accepting new clients.