Valerie Kennedy Lang, LCSW

Valerie Kennedy Lang is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience providing mental health support across healthcare, nonprofit, and private practice settings. She has worked closely with parents, caregivers, siblings, and patients affected by chronic and life-threatening illness, guiding people through healthcare-related trauma, grief, bereavement, and crisis intervention. She also supports individuals coping with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and life transitions.

Valerie emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach and aims to create a trusting therapeutic relationship where clients set meaningful goals and make measurable progress toward them. She integrates elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic ideas, solutions-focused strategies, and family systems work while maintaining a strengths-based perspective. Her practice is informed by experience with caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and relationship and family concerns.

As an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker trained to assess and treat emotional and behavioral concerns - she focuses on practical tools and compassionate listening to help people build coping skills, process loss, improve self-worth, and navigate complex life changes. Valerie welcomes international clients and offers therapeutic support tailored to each person’s needs and goals.