Prof. Valerie Starr, LCPC, LCMHC

Prof. Valerie Starr helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship difficulties. She also supports those struggling with depression, addiction issues, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem. Her work includes attention to trauma and abuse, and she brings nearly four decades of clinical experience to these concerns.

Starr is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Nevada. She has worked in both community mental health and private practice for 38 years. She has supported people across the lifespan and has experience with adoption and foster care, aging issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and related challenges.

Her style is warm and person-centered. Sessions focus on listening deeply, identifying patterns in thoughts and everyday habits, and building practical ways to change what isn’t working. She avoids labels and treats each person as an individual pursuing a better life.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, existential perspectives, and hypnotherapy when appropriate. In sessions she helps people notice how their habits and beliefs shape feelings and relationships, then practices small, manageable changes.

Before private practice, she spent eleven years teaching graduate courses in family systems therapy and counseling ethics. That teaching background informs her clear explanations and focus on real-world skills. Prospective clients who want to begin can follow the site’s intake steps to match with her and schedule an initial visit.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions can help people notice how those patterns show up now and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, with the therapist offering empathic listening and reflection to help people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on recognizing unhelpful thoughts and trying different everyday habits to shift feelings and behavior.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process may combine elements from different approaches to suit each person's situation.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions useful because they can more easily fit appointments into a busy day, have shorter check-in sessions when needed, or choose audio-only visits when bandwidth is limited. Online work can make it simpler to use what is learned in therapy immediately in daily life, such as practicing new communication patterns between sessions.