Valentina Gasparro, LCPC

Valentina Gasparro is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and 25 years of experience supporting adults, children, and adolescents. She offers individual, group, and family therapy with a warm, collaborative style that focuses on empowering people to make healthier decisions and build more fulfilling lives.

Her work is intentionally eclectic, combining mindfulness training, solution-focused strategies, trauma-focused care, meditative practices, and well-established therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. This blend allows her to tailor treatment to each person’s concerns, whether addressing stress and anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, or other challenges.

Valentina also works with issues related to parenting, intimacy, sleep, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, guilt and shame, infidelity, and end-of-life counseling. She provides services in English and Italian and accepts international clients while based in Illinois. Her approach emphasizes practical skills, self-discovery, and gradual transformation as clients move toward greater well-being.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Therapy

Valentina integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and build committed action toward meaningful life goals - an approach often helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding relationship patterns and emotional bonds so clients can develop more secure ways of relating and resolving interpersonal difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets emotional experience and expression to strengthen connections in relationships and to process intense feelings in a constructive way.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Valentina collaborates with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it possible to fit care into busy schedules and to connect from different locations. Working with licensed professionals in these formats can make regular support more accessible and allow therapy to continue through life changes while maintaining a consistent therapeutic relationship.