Therapist profile
Valerie Engel, LPC, LMHC
Washington
LPC and LMHC - addictions and relationships
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- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- License
- LPC, Colorado / LPC.0016813 ; LMHC, Washington / LH 61083971
- NPI
- 1053646026
- Experience
- 18 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Washington
About
- Addictions
- Relationship skills
- CBT and client-centered
About Valerie
Valerie Engel is an LPC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of clinical experience in Washington and Colorado. She works with adults who are exhausted from putting others first, people-pleasing, trouble saying no, or living with someone else's drinking or moods. Valerie focuses on practical skills to reduce stress and to improve communication and relationships.
She listens carefully and helps clients identify personal strengths. Sessions often include building coping strategies and practicing clearer boundaries. She helps challenge unhelpful thinking patterns and develops steps to manage sleep problems, low self-esteem, and the fallout from trauma or loss.
Valerie draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep the conversation focused on the client’s goals and experience. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and how changing one can change the others. These methods are used to address addictions, depression, intimacy issues, and codependency-related patterns.
Her background began in addiction and recovery counseling in 2007 and expanded to broader mental health practice in 2017. That history informs work with co-occurring disorders, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also brings experience with divorce and separation, aging concerns, body image, and dissociation.
Valerie works in Washington and conducts sessions in English. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session through the listed online options.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy concentrates on what matters to the client. In practice this means conversations that follow the client's priorities and help them name what to change. It can be useful for relationship strain, codependency patterns, and feeling overwhelmed by others' needs.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include small practical experiments and homework to try different behaviors and notice what shifts. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, sleep issues, and changing people-pleasing habits.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That means approaches can be mixed or changed as progress unfolds.
Confirm the exact session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins during a break, avoiding travel time, or choosing a session style that does not require video. Licensed professionals use these practical benefits to help clients apply new skills in day-to-day situations.
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Experience
18+ years
Listed in
Colorado, Washington
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with addictions, depression, sleep problems, low self-esteem, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, compassion fatigue, and codependency-related patterns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is client-centered and practical, focusing on listening, building skills, and using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How much experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience, beginning with addiction and recovery counseling in 2007 and adding broader mental health therapy in 2017.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Washington; she is also licensed in Colorado per her background details.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.