Virginia Vary, LMSW

Virginia Vary is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of counseling experience in Michigan. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed. She also supports people facing addictions, trauma, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and the life changes that come with aging, chronic illness, or cancer.

Vary focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. She listens, reflects, and works with each person to find practical ways forward. Sessions emphasize simple tools that can be used between meetings to manage mood, sleep, and everyday stress.

Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods, including acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive-behavioral tools, and mindfulness practices. These methods are used to build coping skills, clarify values, and reduce unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. Solution-focused techniques are also used to set short-term, achievable goals.

Vary has long experience helping people in the LGBT community and those who have survived abuse or trauma. She also supports people dealing with substance use, compassion fatigue, and the wide effects of chronic pain or serious illness. Her work includes helping people with self-esteem, career decisions, and sleeping or eating concerns.

She asks for courage in taking the first step and offers steady support through the process. To begin, follow the site's Start Therapy flow and complete the matching questionnaire to schedule a first appointment.

Approaches used in online work and how they help

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports values-based action so people can move toward what matters, even with ongoing health problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and shift unhelpful habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process may include mixing ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and solution-focused steps to build skills and set short-term goals.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow follow-ups between in-person visits. It also makes it simpler to have shorter check-ins or to choose a phone option when video is difficult. Talk with the therapist during scheduling to learn which session formats are offered and what will best fit your routine.