- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Yuridia
Yuridia (Valerie) Polonsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and other life changes. She works in both English and Spanish and offers a calm, steady presence in sessions.
Yuridia emphasizes straightforward, usable strategies. Sessions often include skills to manage strong emotions, tools for better communication, and steps to tackle daily struggles like sleep or anger.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that help people notice what matters and take small, doable actions toward it. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD. She also helps people with relationship and career questions, body image, caregiver stress, and blended family issues.
Yuridia uses several evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. In therapy she aims to build understanding around attachment, patterns of avoidance, and responses to abandonment. Clients can expect a collaborative style that balances empathy with clear behavioral steps.
The goal is to reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day functioning. Practical matters are handled simply. Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Payment uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the usual appointment process for the practice.
What Yuridia works with
Everything Yuridia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Yuridia helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Yuridia lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and getting through life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep troubles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns, helping people understand closeness, boundaries, and recurring relationship struggles.Choosing the right method is usually a collaborative process. Yuridia will talk about what feels most useful, try techniques together, and adjust based on what helps with parenting stress, grief, trauma, or daily coping. The aim is to find approaches that match the client's goals and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity during life transitions.
Questions people ask about Yuridia
What concerns does this therapist address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting, addiction, trauma and related issues such as grief, sleeping problems, and self-esteem.
What is the therapeutic style like?
Expect a collaborative and down-to-earth approach that mixes empathy with practical skills for emotion regulation and communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 15 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida.
Where is she licensed and where does she practice?
She holds a Florida LCSW credential and provides services while based in Florida.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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