1140 Holly Springs Rd. Suite 207
Holly Springs, NC 27540
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547 Keisler Dr. Suite 104
Cary, NC 27518
919-584-4869 v.schwiebert@gmail.com
Wake Counseling & Consulting PLLC
Your decision to explore counseling represents a significant step toward improving your life. This step needs to be appreciated and honored as it involves vulnerability, courage, and commitment to personal work. Feeling heard, understood, and accepted for who you are and what you have already experienced is key to the counseling process. I view my role as giving you the support, safety, caring, and respect you deserve while facilitating you doing that for yourself. I will serve as your guide, sounding board, teacher, cheerleader, coach, and witness to your journey. I will also provide tools and experiences to help you increase self-awareness, self-expression, and self-care and help you learn to trust in your basic goodness and worth. I believe you know what is best for you in your life. Through exploration and experience in counseling you will gain self insight and feel more connected and compassionate with yourself and others. This will allow you to meet your personal goals, engage in healthier and more caring behaviors, and attain greater happiness, satisfaction, and balance in your life.
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About
Valerie Schwiebert
I have been a practicing mental health therapist since 1985. I am a retired professor of mental health counseling and a licensed professional counselor. I have been providing counseling in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings since 1985. My focus is working with individuals on issues such as depression, anxiety, anger, stress, self concept, trauma, loss, grief, loneliness, self criticism, confusion, confidence, coping skills, guilt/shame, intimacy, empowerment, balance, and self care. Additionally, I enjoy working with individuals navigating life transitions such as graduation, career development, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, divorce, joining or separating from the military, caregiving, empty nest, midlife, retirement, and aging.
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I am interested in facilitating groups on topics such as Good Grief, Overcoming Anxiety, Dealing with Post Partum Depression, Empowerment for Women by Women, Adults Dealing with ADHD, Alzheimer's Caregivers Support, and Retirement Support.
Education & Experience
Valerie Schwiebert received her Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, Specialist Degree in Marriage and Family and Juvenile Offenders Counseling, and her Doctorate in Counselor Education from the University of Florida. Additionally, she completed areas of specialization during her doctoral work in Adult Development and Aging, and Death and Dying. Valerie has worked as a rehabilitation counselor, mental health counselor in private practice, researcher, and administrator. She has held the credentials: National Certified Counselor, National Certified Gerontological Counselor, North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. She has served as president of the Illinois Association for Assessment in Counseling, president of the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education, treasurer for AADA, secretary for CSI International, and Chair of the North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors. Additionally, she has authored three books and numerous journal articles. She has delivered presentations and workshops at the local, state, national, and international level.
