Context matters
Individual experience is understood alongside family, school, relationships, and life stage.
Therapy for adolescents, young adults, and families navigating change.
Thoughtful, grounded support for the moments when growing up, separating, or becoming a new kind of family feels more complicated than expected.
Practice availability Currently maintaining a waitlist.
Areas of focus
Support shaped around the transition in front of you. Each stage asks something different of individuals and families, so therapy begins by understanding that context.
Adolescence
Helping teens and parents move through a demanding phase with more understanding and less conflict.
Early Adulthood
Making room for uncertainty while building identity, independence, and a workable direction.
Separated + Blended Families
Support for families adapting to new structures, roles, homes, and relationships.
Experience with the person and the system around them.
Dr. Roberts is drawn to the moments when life changes shape: a teenager finding their footing, a young adult deciding what comes next, a family becoming something new. Her work stays close to the relationships, transitions, and expectations each person is carrying.
She brings a direct, engaged style and a genuine comfort with complexity. The goal is not to assign blame or rush toward an easy answer, but to help people understand what is happening and find a more workable way forward.
Valerie Roberts, PsyD · California Licensed Psychologist PSY32131
Purposeful, approachable, thoughtful.
Direct, not prescriptive
Therapy can be candid and active without reducing complex situations to simple instructions.
Family-aware
When appropriate, the work makes space for the people and patterns surrounding the client.
Practical movement
Insight that translates into choices and communications that better align with your values.
Know the practical things before reaching out.
- Location
- 3030 Bridgeway, Suite 425
Sausalito, CA 94965
- Availability
- Currently maintaining a waitlist
- Phone
- 415-446-9052
Start with a Getting to Know You call.
A first conversation to see whether the practice is the right fit. No commitment, just room to ask questions and get a sense of how Dr. Roberts works. The practice is currently maintaining a waitlist; email reaches the same inbox and is the quietest first step. Please do not use email for urgent or emergency concerns.
Start the conversation 415-446-9052
The practice is currently maintaining a waitlist - email reaches the same inbox and is the quietest first step.