Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky, LCSW

Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker who brings 15 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She speaks both English and Spanish and aims to make the work understandable and practical.

Valerie creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk through difficult moments. Sessions emphasize clearer communication, stronger boundaries, and realistic coping steps. She uses straightforward tools to help manage overwhelming feelings and rebuild daily routines.

Her background includes long-term work with mood concerns, trauma and abuse recovery, and addiction-related struggles. She also helps people facing grief, parenting strain, caregiving stress, and issues around intimacy and commitment. Valerie draws on approaches that target thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.

In sessions she blends practical skill building with attention to attachment and emotional experience. That can include looking at patterns in close relationships, identifying unhelpful thinking, and practicing new ways to respond under stress. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Valerie describes her style as collaborative and client-centered. She listens for each person’s priorities and adapts techniques to fit real life. If you want a therapist who will help you sort relationship patterns while also addressing anxiety or depression, she is presented as a clear, experience-based option.

Before booking, confirm current session options and scheduling details through the provider’s matching process.

Therapeutic approaches and working online

Valerie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where avoidance has become limiting.

She also integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and close relationships shape current patterns. That work helps when intimacy, trust, or recurring relationship problems cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie treats choosing methods as a team effort and will adapt techniques to match each person’s goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and changes course when needed.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can also modify exercises and homework to suit remote sessions, while focusing on clear communication and usable skills.