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Valerie Stanley-Brooks, BACP
United Kingdom
Counsellor - anxiety and relationships
See online therapy options- CBT and psychodynamic
- Grief and trauma
- Addictions and parenting
About Valerie
Valerie Stanley-Brooks is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has worked in the UK for 25 years. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and depression, and supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with addictions, sleep and eating problems, parenting and career concerns.
Across two and a half decades she has practised in educational, therapeutic and voluntary settings. That has given her experience with a wide range of life situations, from bereavement and major life changes to caregiver stress and compassion fatigue. She also lists work around adoption and foster care, blended family issues and fatherhood concerns.
Her approach draws on several models. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the methods she uses, alongside client-centred, psychodynamic, solution-focused and trauma-informed ways of working. In practical terms this means identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits, exploring past patterns that still affect current feelings, and trying small, manageable changes.
Sessions include tools and materials clients can use between meetings. Valerie explains ideas in plain language and offers steps people can test in daily life. She aims to help people improve communication, cope with grief or loss, manage anxiety, and address addiction-related behaviours.
Valerie sees adults and couples and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered in English and are arranged through an online matching and scheduling process. Costs vary by location and use a cancellable subscription model.
How Valerie combines approaches for online work
Valerie often draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people recognise unhelpful thinking and test small changes in behaviour. CBT in online work can focus on practical exercises, thought records and short behavioural experiments to try between sessions.She also uses client-centred ideas, offering reflective listening and helping clients set the pace and topics of discussion. That approach supports clearer communication about what matters most in therapy. In addition, psychodynamic thinking is used to look at recurring patterns and earlier experiences that influence current relationships and emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie will discuss goals, preferences and the presenting concerns and then agree on methods to try. The process is collaborative and may combine techniques from different approaches as needed.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the exact online options before you book. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoiding the need to be on camera if that helps. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and materials to work well via remote sessions.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression, as well as relationship and intimacy-related issues.
How does she use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
CBT is used to notice unhelpful thoughts and habits and to try practical changes. Sessions often include concrete exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving.
What is her professional background and experience?
She has 25 years of experience working in educational, therapeutic and voluntary settings, supporting people with a wide range of life challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current online session options before booking.
How are costs structured?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
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