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Valerie LaPorte, LICSW

  • Experience21 years
  • LocationMinnesota
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Valerie

Valerie LaPorte is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) who blends client-centered care with evidence-informed methods to address a wide range of concerns, including ADHD.

Background and approach

With 21 years of professional experience and over a decade of direct clinical practice, she offers an empathetic, goal-directed approach that emphasizes clear listening and practical problem solving. Valerie tailors treatment plans using techniques from attachment work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and mindfulness to match each person’s needs.

Her background includes long-term work with people facing complex mental health challenges and diverse life circumstances, covering issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, sleep difficulties, parenting stress, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.

She also attends to related areas like abandonment and attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and body image. Valerie aims to help clients feel heard, treated with dignity, and empowered to move toward their goals through a collaborative therapeutic relationship.

Practicing in Minnesota, she brings a respectful, strengths-based stance to sessions and draws on solution-focused elements alongside longer-term strategies. Valerie welcomes international clients and offers flexible formats to connect based on individual needs and availability.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Valerie commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy to shape online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and developing practical skills to manage symptoms like anxiety, sleep problems, depression, and aspects of ADHD-related challenges. Attachment-based therapy explores patterns of relating and emotional connection, helping people understand how early relationship experiences influence current stress, intimacy, and communication issues.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Valerie collaborates with each client to assess goals, preferences, and strengths, adjusting techniques over time so the work matches practical needs and personal style rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, online therapy with her prioritizes flexibility and access. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, continue care across distances, and use different communication modes for homework, skill practice, or short check-ins between longer sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Valerie commonly address?
She works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and family difficulties, parenting and sleep problems, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD among others.
What is Valerie's therapeutic style and approach?
Her style is empathetic and goal-directed, combining client-centered listening with problem-solving. She integrates attachment-informed work, CBT, DBT skills, and mindfulness to tailor interventions to each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 21 years of professional experience, including more than 10 years of direct clinical practice working with people who face a variety of personal and mental health challenges.
Where is Valerie licensed and based?
Valerie holds an LICSW and practices in Minnesota; her license is listed as MN LICSW 18275.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients when appropriate and feasible.
What session formats are available with Valerie?
She provides several online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How are fees and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

21+ years

Licensed

Minnesota

Languages

English

What Valerie can help with

Valerie LaPorte works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.

Valerie works with young children and the elderly dealing with depression and anxiety.

How Valerie approaches therapy

Valerie's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Valerie is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker practicing in Minnesota.