Valerie Keller Gates, LPC

Valerie Keller Gates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 7 years of experience supporting adults, families, and groups. She earned a Bachelor of Science from Southern Nazarene University in Family Studies and Gerontology and a Master of Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma with an emphasis in Licensed Professional Counseling, training that informs her work across a wide range of life stages and relational needs.

Her experience includes working with mild to severe mental illness and with concerns such as depression, grief and loss, abuse and neglect, addiction concerns with dual diagnosis, behavioral challenges, bipolar disorder, and parenting difficulties. She also works with stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with major life changes.

Valerie Keller Gates adapts her counseling style to each person, while often leaning into a client-centered, client-focused approach that prioritizes meeting clients where they are and building from that starting point. She aims to bring an honest and caring presence to sessions to support open communication as challenges are explored and processed. Her work commonly integrates cognitive-behavioral strategies alongside client-centered therapy, and the direction of therapy is shaped to fit each client’s needs and goals.