Valerie Moore, LCSW

Valerie Moore is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Oklahoma who supports adults navigating stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, life transitions, and depression. With eight years of experience, she approaches therapy as a collaborative exploration that honors the courage it takes to seek a more fulfilling life and to begin change.

Valerie uses a psychodynamic perspective to help clients understand how past experiences and unconscious beliefs shape present choices and repeated patterns. She guides people to look back with curiosity rather than blame, uncovering core beliefs about the self that can keep them stuck, and then work toward healthier ways of relating and living. Her sessions focus on healing wounds, clarifying values and life purpose, and building greater peace and joy.

Her practice also addresses attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, midlife transitions, self-love, and women's issues. She is described as supportive, caring, nonjudgmental, and compassionate, and she brings a warm sense of humor to her work. Valerie looks forward to partnering with clients who are ready to explore, grow, and create meaningful change.

Psychodynamic Insight and Online Support

Valerie brings psychodynamic therapy to online sessions, a method that explores how early relationships and unconscious beliefs influence current feelings and behaviors. This approach helps clients identify repeating patterns, understand the origins of anxiety or low mood, and gain insight that supports lasting change. By examining past influences, clients can make different choices in relationships, caregiving roles, and life transitions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work, and Valerie approaches this as a collaborative process. She will talk with each client about their needs, goals, and preferences and adapt her psychodynamic focus to fit the concerns at hand. Together clients and therapist determine what methods and pacing feel most helpful.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into busy lives or when in-person visits are not possible. For many people, these options increase accessibility and continuity of care while preserving the relational connection that makes therapy effective. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these formats to provide thoughtful, reflective work tailored to each person's situation.