Valerie Yost, LCSW

Valerie Yost is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She is practical in her work and focuses on helping clients find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Valerie aims to build a steady, respectful relationship where people can tell their story and make changes that matter.

Her main approach is cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She blends that with problem-solving, insight-oriented work, and emotional regulation strategies to meet each person where they are. Valerie also integrates faith-based perspectives when clients want that included.

She has long experience helping people through medical illness, grief, caregiver stress, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, codependency, infidelity, and family of origin issues. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric concerns, blended family issues, cancer-related stress, and hospice and end-of-life counseling.

Valerie works with people facing complicated feelings like guilt, shame, and compassion fatigue. She can help those navigating bipolar mood concerns and parenting stresses. Her background emphasizes practical strategies that people can use between sessions.

Based in Florida, she brings two decades of clinical practice to each session and uses her experience to adapt methods to individual needs. Conversations are geared toward clear goals, small steps, and realistic coping tools to support day-to-day life.

How Valerie Uses CBT Online and Finds the Right Fit

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in behavior to reduce symptoms. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many trauma-related reactions because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.

Valerie also uses problem-solving strategies that break big issues into doable steps and emotional regulation techniques that teach ways to calm intense feelings. These approaches focus on practical skills people can practice in daily life and review with their therapist.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the kinds of problems they bring. That means adjusting pacing, mixing strategies, and checking what is helping as therapy progresses.

The practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and fitting sessions around work or caregiving, and the chance to use tools learned in real-world settings between visits. The original profile does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. A short initial match and scheduling step will help clarify how sessions are arranged and what to expect.