Valerie Engel, LPC, LMHC

Valerie Engel centers her work on careful listening and helping people reconnect with their own strengths and inner wisdom. She guides clients in building practical skills and strategies to navigate challenges, improve relationships, and reshape unhelpful thinking patterns while offering a supportive space to talk about what is troubling them.

Her therapeutic approach blends several evidence-informed methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), client-centered techniques, and mindfulness practices. She is also certified in HeartMath for stress management and in Trauma Sensitive HeartMath, trainings that focus on techniques to reduce stress symptoms and restore a sense of control and self-mastery.

Engel began her counseling career in 2007 working in addiction and recovery, and expanded into mental health therapy in 2017. Her clinical background includes work with co-occurring disorders and a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, parenting and family issues, codependency, divorce and separation, isolation and loneliness, sleep difficulties, work-life balance, and issues related to aging and women’s experiences.

She holds licensure as a counselor in both Colorado and Washington State. Her listed credentials are LPC and LMHC - Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor - reflecting her professional training and state licensure.