Valerie LaPorte, LICSW

Valerie LaPorte is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota. She brings 21 years of professional experience supporting people through depression, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, focused on listening and setting clear goals together.

Valerie uses practical therapy methods to help people solve problems and build skills. Sessions often include work on thoughts and behaviors, repairing attachment patterns, and learning mindfulness tools to reduce stress. She draws on a mix of approaches tailored to each person's needs rather than a single technique.

Her background includes long-term work with adults who have serious mental health concerns as well as people managing trauma, substance issues, caregiving strain, and changes that come with aging and geriatric issues. Valerie also has experience with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. She aims to help people feel heard and regain a sense of control over daily life.

Valerie emphasizes respect and dignity in the therapy room. She helps clients set concrete, achievable goals and uses focused listening to guide interventions. Therapy may include skill-building, problem-solving, and strategies to manage mood, sleep, or relationship stress.

People who choose her often want practical tools and supportive guidance through hard transitions. She works collaboratively to develop a plan that fits individual goals and circumstances. Valerie welcomes the chance to help people move toward clearer coping and better day-to-day functioning.

How Valerie's Approaches Work Online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating to others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In online work CBT often includes setting clear goals, tracking patterns between sessions, and trying practical experiments in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Valerie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared decision making can include trying an approach and adjusting it based on what helps most.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice new skills in the settings where challenges actually happen, then bring observations back to sessions for focused problem solving.