Valerie Monteiro, ACA
21 years in practice
Valerie Monteiro is an ACA counsellor with 21 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- ACA
- 1642 · expires July 2026
- Years in practice
- 21
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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About Valerie
Valerie Monteiro is an ACA counsellor with 21 years of clinical experience. She combines psychotherapy and coaching skills to help people navigate stress, anxiety, grief and relationship strains. Valerie uses practical conversation and structured tools to make therapy feel clear and manageable.
Valerie listens first, then helps people set simple goals for change. Sessions focus on skills you can practise between meetings - breathing and grounding for intense moments, and thought-work to reduce worry.
Background and approach
She brings gentle directness when addressing relationship patterns and intimacy-related concerns. Her background includes work with trauma, abuse and complex grief, and she uses a mix of approaches such as EMDR, cognitive work and emotion-focused techniques. That variety means she can adapt to different problems like sleeping or eating issues, chronic pain, and compassion fatigue.
Valerie also supports people dealing with career stress, self-esteem and control issues. Valerie speaks English and Hindi. She offers sessions in Australia by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. Beginning therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Valerie aims to help people notice patterns, practise new responses, and build steadier relationships with themselves and others.
She presents clear steps and steady support rather than medical jargon or vague promises.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Valerie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Approaches Valerie names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Valerie uses therapy approaches online
Valerie draws on a few complementary approaches to guide online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and learn values-based steps forward; it can assist with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it with small behavioural experiments to reduce worry and improve sleep. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) offers a structured way to process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest options together. That collaborative stance means therapy can change over time as needs shift and different methods prove helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues can be brought to therapy?
Valerie works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and career stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a practical, conversational style that mixes empathy with clear steps. Sessions often include skill practice, emotional processing and focused reflection to support day-to-day change.
How much experience does she have?
Valerie has 21 years of clinical experience working in psychotherapy and coaching contexts.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is listed with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and offers services from Australia.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences.
How does the subscription and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions operate via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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