Valerie LaPorte, LICSW

Valerie LaPorte is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with 21 years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, attention challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Valerie draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavioral skills, and mindfulness. In sessions she listens closely, helps people clarify practical goals, and teaches skills to manage upsetting thoughts and feelings. She aims to help clients recognize patterns that began in the family they grew up in and how those patterns affect current choices and relationships.

Her background includes long experience with adults across a wide range of difficulties, including serious mental illness and complex life circumstances. She has also worked with concerns related to adoption and foster care, abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and attachment problems. Her Minnesota LICSW credential is noted as part of her professional standing.

In therapy people can expect straightforward problem-solving alongside skills practice. Valerie uses structured tools from cognitive and behavioral approaches and integrates mindful awareness and relational focus when helpful. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful patterns, trying new coping strategies, and checking what works in daily life.

She welcomes conversations about goals, practical next steps, and how early family dynamics continue to shape behavior and relationships.

How Valerie’s approaches translate to online work