Valerie McManus, LCSW-C
Healing Therapies Counseling Services

Living in today’s world allows many of us unique opportunities for joy and connection. Most of us also face increased levels of strain due to the tempo of modern living. However, when one is willing to seek encouragement, challenging times become unique opportunities for significant growth, healing and transformation.

Through the Healing Therapies practice, clinical social worker Valerie McManus offers the evaluation and treatment needed to improve mental health, empowering you to move through life’s challenges with a greater sense of balance, personal confidence and inner peace. Such counseling can address a wide range of issues and services including, but not limited to:

• positive parenting & parenting difficulties
• self-esteem and body image development
• postpartum depression
• psychosocial evaluation
• spiritual identity development

Valerie McManus, LCSW-C, obtained her Masters in Social Work from UMAB in 1999. Since then, she has dedicated much of her efforts to the areas of women-focused education, child welfare & advocacy, and the use of energy therapies in spirituality development and emotional healing.

Ms. McManus’ first book, A Look in the Mirror; Freeing Yourself from the Body Image Blues was released in 2004 by the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). Her workshop, of the same title, has been presented along the East Coast, since 2002. Ms. McManus’ second book, a memoir entitled The Boy who Birthed Me, is expected for release in 2008.

Ms. McManus greatly enjoys the balance provided by her role as a part-time case supervisor for Anne Arundel County’s Court Appointed Advocates Program and her work as a private therapy practioner.