Val is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in relationship and family systems. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology/Honors, with studies in Social Work, Education, and Psychology and Master of Arts Degree of Marriage and Family Therapy at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania. Val’s work with individuals, couples, and families has led her to understand family interactions and engagement. She uses a systems approach and solution driven pathway to help her clients move towards their identified goals. Currently, Val spends much of her time working with individuals maneuvering through family and couples’ relationships to include experiencing domestic violence and child abuse. Val has compassion for her clients and aids them with learning new perspectives that can improve their relationships. Her work is structured around roles and boundaries within relationships, as well as recognizing one’s self-worth, journey, and life purpose.

Val’s therapeutic background stems from in-home, outpatient, and psychiatric programming in Pennsylvania. Her earlier years were focused on children and adults with severe mental health concerns within the family system. Currently she prefers to work with adults who are working and improving their self-esteem, identifying attainable goals to improve their day-to-day life, struggles with grief and loss within their relationships, depression, and anxiety. She draws from her past work to help clients move past childhood trauma and generational discord to find fulfillment and peace in their current lives. Val targets the present moment, exploring with her clients their past experiences and their hopes for the future, to help them live for today.

Val’s clinical training is in Structural Family Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Family Systems. Her training includes many other programmatic processes and skill building methods, she uses an integrative and compassionate approach of theory, techniques, mindfulness, and understanding to assist her clients where they are starting from to enhance their life journey. Her goal with her clients in therapy is to see the good within them, despite the struggles they are encountering and to empower them to lead a full, rich life even amid uncertainty.