Corina Valdano
Compassionate, practical therapy for life stress
About Corina
Corina Valdano uses a pragmatic, person-centred therapy style to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and difficult relationships. She draws on several evidence-based approaches and keeps sessions focused on what the person wants to change. Corina communicates plainly and works in English and Spanish.
With 27 years of experience, Corina has supported people through self-esteem struggles, grief, body image concerns and major life changes. She also works with issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes work across varied clinical settings in the United Kingdom. Corina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts while committing to actions that match their values. She also applies Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build more effective coping skills.
Her client-centred approach keeps the person’s goals at the heart of sessions. Sessions tend to be practical and collaborative. Corina helps people set short-term goals, practise new skills between meetings, and reflect on what is working.
She aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to everyday life. People can work with Corina by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Her HCPC registration is noted as a professional credential.
International clients may be supported and sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What Corina works with
How Corina works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and encourages choosing actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and coping skills.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to build more supported ways of relating to others, which can be helpful for people with attachment issues or trauma histories.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that fit the person’s needs, and adjust methods over time. This is a collaborative process where the person’s preferences shape the plan.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and chat or text messaging works well for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Registered with
- HCPC
- Languages
- English, Spanish
