Valerie Bryan, LPC
Texas · 37 years in practice
Valerie Bryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years in the mental health field.
License and registration
- LPC, Texas
- 9269 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1720196132 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 37
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Valerie
Valerie Bryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years in the mental health field. She brings a warm, human-centered style to sessions and invites practical ways to look at problems. Valerie often begins by helping people find small signs of hope and optimism early in therapy.
Her background includes work as a registered art therapist, and she sometimes uses simple creative activities in session. Clients may be asked to keep markers and paper nearby to sketch feelings, map relationships, or symbolize a problem.
Background and approach
No artistic skill is required for these exercises. Valerie draws on Jungian ideas and elements of Native American spirituality to help people consider balance, respect for differences, and gratitude. She also helps people face difficult, painful parts of themselves so they can move forward instead of staying stuck.
She uses a mix of approaches including existential ideas about meaning, attachment-based ways of understanding relationships, client-centered listening, and cognitive strategies to manage distress. Sessions are conversational and direct, using humor and compassion alongside practical steps.
Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, addiction struggles, grief, caregiving strain, body image, and career or life transitions. Valerie aims to help people release old pain, find more moments of laughter, and build stronger ways of coping.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Valerie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Valerie names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Valerie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Valerie often draws on existential ideas focused on meaning and choice - helping people name what matters and face difficult feelings so they can make clearer decisions. This approach can be useful when coping with life changes, emptiness, or questions about purpose.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect stress and intimacy. That perspective helps when addressing communication problems, codependency, or caregiver strain. Client-centered listening is a core part of her work, which means the therapist follows the client's lead and offers empathic reflection to clarify feelings and goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until something fits. Clients are encouraged to share feedback so sessions can be adjusted to their needs and pace.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people choose what works best for them. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging can fit into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Valerie address?
She helps with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, addiction, grief, parenting and career changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and human-centered, combining humor and compassion with practical exercises and occasional creative activities like drawing to gain new perspectives.
How much experience does she have in counseling?
She has 37 years of experience working in the mental health field and has used art-based methods alongside talk therapy throughout her career.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas and practices with that credential in the state.
What languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
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