About Valerie
Dr. Valerie Glass uses a relational, client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on two decades of practice to offer steady support. Her tone is direct and warm, and she aims to help people feel heard and move toward clearer goals.
She meets people where they are and starts by listening to their immediate needs. Sessions often focus on practical steps for coping with life changes, managing mood and sleep, or sorting through family-of-origin patterns.
She also addresses issues around sexuality, gender, and non-traditional relationship arrangements when those topics come up. Her background includes nearly 20 years of clinical work and a doctorate in marriage and family therapy.
She also teaches students training to become therapists, which keeps her methods current and reflective. Her licensure includes LMFT in Michigan and South Carolina, and she practices from South Carolina.
In sessions she blends client-centered, narrative, and solution-focused ideas to help clarify problems and find workable next steps. That can mean reshaping the story someone tells about themselves, focusing on strengths, or setting short-term goals to reduce overwhelm.
She aims for collaboration rather than prescription. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation and practical tools.
Dr. Glass supports work on trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting stress, career shifts, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and sexual concerns including BDSM and kink topics.
Her approach is to help each person define what progress looks like for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in the room. The therapist reflects concerns, validates feelings, and follows the client's lead to help them name problems and priorities. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship stress that need a steady, empathetic presence.Narrative therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. Sessions look at patterns and meanings, then explore alternative ways of understanding upsetting events. That can be useful for trauma, family-of-origin issues, gender questions, and sexual identity topics.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, achievable changes. Sessions identify immediate goals and practical steps to try between meetings. This method is often helpful for people coping with work strain, sleep or eating concerns, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may shift as progress is made or new concerns emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact. These options offer flexibility to schedule sessions around life and to match the format to the work being done.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English