Welcome

“The best way out is always through” — Robert Frost

How I Can Help

Therapy

A collaborative approach between the client and therapist for a greater understanding of existing thought patterns, interpersonal dynamics, behaviors, and more. Reducing distress, healing from loss, and deepening self-awareness are common therapeutic goals. This partnership is built on mutual respect, understanding, and connection and drives personal growth.

Executive Coaching

A partnership between client and coach to support growth toward professional and personal goals. Coaches support clients in identifying desired goals, managing self-limiting beliefs that disrupt progress, creating a strategy of action, and more with the client’s own source of drive and knowledge.

Consulting

A professional relationship that includes addressing an organizational problem via assessment, development of strategy, execution of training and knowledge, and reflection on impact. Facilitated workshops and trainings incorporate current research on human behavior, emotional intelligence, effecting change, and more.

Meet Valerie

Each person is the expert on their own life. I carry this mantra into every setting, whether that is a therapeutic conversation, executive coaching session, or consulting engagement. I serve to partner with clients and infuse our work together with openness, curiosity, empathy, and motivation. I prompt clients to reflect on thoughts, emotions, and decisions made in their lives, as they relate to goals they are hoping to achieve. Each session is holistic, individualized, and attuned to the client’s desired outcomes and change.

I believe strongly in continued learning for the best quality of care I can provide. Outside the classroom, I regularly follow leading researchers and when fortunate, attend trainings by these scholars in the field. The academic programs and professional organizations below have profoundly shaped my clinical and consultative skill set, and I am often seeking out additional opportunities to learn.

Formal Education and Training:

  • Bachelor in Social Work, Minor in Mental Health Studies: New York University, Silver School of Social Work

  • Master of Science in Social Work, Concentration: Health, Mental Health, & Disabilities: Columbia University School of Social Work

  • Clinical Affiliate Program (EMDR) & Integrative Trauma Program: National Institute for the Psychotherapies

  • Leadership and Performance Coach Certification: ACT Leadership & Brown University School of Professional Studies

Let’s Talk

Complete the form below to request a complimentary 15-minute consultation. Please note that this is not a form for emergencies but a tool to connect.

You may also email Valerie directly at: Valerie.Carroll.LCSW@gmail.com