Valerie Farrell , LCSW

Valerie Farrell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a credential that indicates advanced training in clinical social work and therapy, practicing in New York with 28 years of professional experience. She works with individuals and families who are navigating life changes, grief, chronic health challenges, and patterns rooted in intergenerational and developmental trauma. Valerie foregrounds a holistic approach, blending somatic awareness, psychodynamic insight, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, energy-based techniques, and motivational interviewing to shape treatment around each person’s needs.

Her practice specializes in addressing stress and anxiety, substance use and addiction, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues that arise across major life transitions such as aging and chronic illness. Valerie also supports work on attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, body image, caregiving strain, dissociation, eating and food-related problems, and co-occurring conditions where mental health and physical illness intersect. She helps clients build emotional resilience, clarify goals, and develop practical coping tools while attending to the broader relational and developmental contexts that influence wellbeing.

Valerie tailors the therapeutic dialogue and treatment plan to each client’s unique circumstances, emphasizing empowerment and gradual, sustainable change. She welcomes those ready to take the first step toward healing and is committed to accompanying people through difficult moments toward greater balance and purpose.