Valerie Marsh
Practical, relational therapy focused on skills and growth
LMFT Minnesota
- Experience
- 23 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Valerie
Valerie Marsh is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 23 years of clinical experience helping people move past patterns that limit wellbeing. She emphasizes skill-building and resilience, guiding clients to identify strengths and practical tools that support better day-to-day functioning and healthier relationships.
Background and approach
Her work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy alongside mindfulness and client-centered techniques to address concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship struggles. Valerie creates a collaborative therapeutic space where clients can explore emotions, practice new coping strategies, and reorganize unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also attends to issues related to grief, addiction, parenting, intimacy, eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions. In addition to these areas, she has experience with attachment-related difficulties, communication and commitment problems, blended-family dynamics, codependency, and other relational patterns.
Valerie supports clients in clarifying goals and building personalized plans for meaningful change, helping them work toward greater confidence, connection, and day-to-day satisfaction.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Valerie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical approach that helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-based therapy is another important strand in her work, focusing on how early relational patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses and helping people build more supported ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy rounds out her approach by emphasizing empathy and collaboration so clients feel heard while they explore their goals and values.
Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Valerie partners with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and together they determine which combination of techniques will best support progress rather than assuming a single method from the outset.
Online therapy with Valerie is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, maintain continuity during transitions, and keep momentum between sessions while working on skills, coping strategies, and relationship patterns.
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Experience
23+ years
Licensed
Minnesota, Iowa
Languages
English