Questions and Answers

Valerie Varan, MS, LPC, NCC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holistic life coach: a quantum psychology pioneer, author, speaker and lifelong spiritual experiencer. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology from a CACREP-accredited program, has been a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor since 2002, and has been in private practice since 2006. After over twenty years of holistic counseling for mental health concerns, she now specializes in holistic life and spiritual coaching for adults and teens.

Holistic life coaching focuses on personal and spiritual growth, helping you move from “normal” toward fulfilling your goals and vast potential. It sees you through the lens of the whole (mind, body, energy and spirit, and your relationships and environment), helps you catch habits in the way of your progress and develop new patterns, and helps you identify and live your authentic self. It is for you when you don’t feel you have a mental health disorder, but you’d love help with personal, relationship or spiritual goals.

No. Psychotherapy assesses, diagnoses and treats mental health disorders and can be covered by insurance, with HIPAA and legal confidentiality. Coaching is not treatment for a mental health disorder and is not a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy or substance abuse treatment. While Valerie is a Licensed Professional Counselor, she is not currently accepting psychotherapy clients; she is only accepting clients for coaching. If you are working with a psychotherapist, she may still be able to help from the coaching perspective; simply let her know you are doing both.

Tools in four areas. Mind: new constructive thinking habits, mindfulness, and ways to focus and quiet the mind. Body: nutrition to calm emotions and improve sleep, movement to release tension, activities to re-energize your passions. Energy: somatic or energy-based tools to release stress, and focused awareness to develop subtle energy perception and intuition. Soul: deeper awareness to reach higher consciousness, dreamwork, integrating near-death or spiritual experiences, and co-creation.

Spiritual support and guidance offered within the context of your own beliefs, experiences and worldview. It may be for a subtle nudge you feel from your soul, the Universe or God; for finding your purpose; for a career that has lost its meaning; for guidance that feels soulful or sacred; or for integrating a direct spiritual experience with someone nonjudgmental who will listen, support and validate it.

No. Belonging to a particular religion is not necessary in order to get in touch with your essential nature that is spirit. If you are not interested in such topics, you won’t bring them up and they won’t be part of your sessions. For those who do raise them, Valerie can help you make more sense of your spiritual inquiry within the context of your faith, and become more aware of how it affects your life choices.

Yes. As a lifelong spiritual experiencer herself, Valerie helps people who have had a near-death, out-of-body or other spiritually transformative experience integrate it into their lives, finding alignment, balance, healthier relationships, embodiment, peace and purpose. You will be listened to without judgment and guided within the context of your own belief system; she can validate your experience with science, help you clarify what it means for daily life, and help you tell spiritual emergence from emergency.

Because the experience is so often dismissed. Research finds most people have had some kind of spiritual experience, but brush it off or don’t feel safe sharing it for fear of being called “crazy”, and one in five experiencers report harm from disclosing to a health-care provider. That is one reason an IANDS symposium found it usually takes 5 to 30 years to integrate a spiritually transformative or near-death experience.

Yes. Valerie facilitates spiritual experiencer support groups, nationally via Zoom or in person in the Lakeland–Tampa Bay–Sarasota area of Florida. Groups of one to five sessions in a series are at no charge. Groups held at a place of worship can be co-facilitated with clergy. Those who have had a spiritual experience share as they feel comfortable and receive support and validation.

Quantum psychology is a perspective within psychology that sees consciousness as quantum: nonlocal (beyond the limits of space and time), entangled (what happens to one part simultaneously affects the others) and multidimensional (with layers within spacetime and beyond). It offers a scientific basis to understand unusual experiences in consciousness beyond the body. Valerie is sought out as a pioneer of quantum psychology, and her book Living in a Quantum Reality explores it.

Living in a Quantum Reality: Using Quantum Physics and Psychology to Embrace Your Higher Consciousness (Turning Stone Press, 2015) is a self-help book based on Valerie’s experience in life and in private practice. It brings concepts from quantum physics to energy, consciousness, the higher self and spiritual experiences, with practical exercises for reaching higher levels of consciousness.

Only three steps. First, schedule your free 30-minute initial call: text or call Valerie at 303-547-8327, or send a message with your name, cell number, email and some times you can meet on Zoom; she will ask about your goals, answer your questions and share ideas about how to move forward. Second, pay for the coaching package that best matches your goals, and she will email you a short Client Information Sheet. Third, email it back and schedule your first session.

The hourly rate is $250. Packages, tailored to your goals, come at a discount: 6 hourly sessions for $990, 12 for $1,890 and 24 for $3,600. Payment is through the Make a Payment link on valerievaran.com. The initial 30-minute call is free.

No. If you are feeling suicidal or homicidal, please call 911 for immediate medical care or go to the emergency room; Valerie does not provide emergency services. Sometimes we do need the blessing of medicine, hospitalization or residential treatment during critical moments.

Text or call (303) 547-8327 (feel free to leave a voicemail), or send a message from the Contact page of valerievaran.com and she will reach out to you. Sessions and the free initial call are by phone or Zoom.