Valerie Long, BACP

Valerie Long is a United Kingdom-based counsellor with 9 years of professional experience and accreditation from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She offers support for relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse including domestic violence, anxiety and depression, and for people coping with life changes. Her practice also addresses communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, panic disorder and panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Valerie works using a Person Centred modality, grounded in the belief that each person is the expert in their own life and carries strengths that can help them overcome challenges. She follows the client's lead in therapy, encouraging self-exploration, insight and reflection so that growth and greater fulfilment can emerge. This approach is intended to help people feel more empowered and better able to shape the lives they want.

Her manner is gentle and attentive, with a focus on the client's well being. She provides a trusting and personal space for exploration and healing. Others describe her as kind, calm, diligent, compassionate and professional, and as someone who is always willing to listen. Her aim is to help clients learn to help themselves and to support them in taking courageous steps toward a more fulfilling and happier life.