Valentina Gasparro, LCPC

Valentina Gasparro is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and issues around jealousy. She speaks English and Italian and works from an Illinois base. Valentina brings a steady, experienced presence to sessions and focuses on helping people move toward clearer choices and better day-to-day functioning.

With 25 years of experience, she draws on several therapeutic approaches rather than one fixed method. She centers mindfulness, acceptance strategies, and emotion-focused conversation. Sessions also use attachment-based ideas and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when helpful. Valentina aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.

Her style is personable and practical. She guides clients through short, manageable steps such as breathing and grounding practices, values-based decision work, and emotion regulation skills. Conversations tend to be conversational and direct, with room for reflection and homework when it fits the client’s goals.

Valentina has worked across a variety of settings with adults, adolescents, and children over her career. She often helps people cope with life changes, parenting stress, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, and complex grief. She also addresses issues like infidelity, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life concerns.

People interested in working with her should expect a collaborative process. She helps clarify priorities, offers tools to manage symptoms, and supports people in taking steps that match their values and daily life.

How therapeutic approaches guide remote work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, life changes, and problems like low motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change repetitive reactions in close relationships, which can be helpful for jealousy and intimacy issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience, using reflective listening and empathy to help someone feel heard and to discover their own solutions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That lets them try approaches in a collaborative way and adjust as progress is made.

The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to involve therapeutic tools like guided mindfulness or emotion regulation exercises that translate well to a virtual setting. Licensed professionals can help clients adapt therapy tasks to their daily routines and responsibilities.