Valarie Collins, LPCC

Valarie Collins is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Kentucky with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and anger. Valarie also supports work on self-esteem and coping with life changes.

She trained in psychology and earned a master's in mental health counseling. Valarie has worked in outpatient clinics, private practice outpatient offices, rehabilitation settings, detox units, intensive outpatient programs, and psychiatric hospital units. She has experience working with individuals, groups, and couples across a wide range of concerns.

Her practical style blends approaches based on the issue being addressed. Motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy are used most often, and she combines other methods where they fit. Sessions include questions, suggestions, and educational materials relevant to the client’s situation.

In therapy she helps people set clear goals and tracks progress toward those goals. Conversations aim to surface thoughts and feelings and to locate workable strategies for everyday life. She will offer tools for coping, steps for addressing problematic patterns, and ways to reduce recurrent anger and frustration.

Valarie emphasizes collaborative decision making about methods and pace. She discusses which strategies are likely to help and adjusts them as progress is reviewed. Her background across settings gives her experience with both short-term problem solving and longer-term recovery work.

How her approaches translate to online sessions