Hale, Valerie, Phd - Sugar House Family Counseling

"Dr. Hale is a great litigation consultant, and a great psycho therapist for families in transition! She is knowledgable and active in helping families have a healthy and happy post litigation experience. She is a great therapist and works in the community to raise the standard of practice for therapists across the state!"

"Dr. Hale is an amazing therapist who has incredible and talented at determining exactly what an individual’s therapeutic needs are. She is incredibly smart and well educated in the best practices of psychotherapy as well as anything that deals with coparenting or high conflict divorce. She is well-versed in a FCC practices and I have found her to be incredibly informed on hi ow to help. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is in need of an amazing therapist. The negative reviews that you see on here are probably from her old practice as a custody evaluator and from parents who lost. Take them with a grain of salt."

"Val helped me get through the hardest trial in my life. She helped me gain my confidence back, my love for life and helped open my eyes back up to happiness and amazing opportunities in life! She’s the sweetest, most caring person I have ever talked to and I miss her everyday! I can’t wait to see her again someday! Highly recommend Val for psychology and divorce therapy! She’s incredible!"

"My verbally abusive ex-husband sued for custody of our children and hired Val Hale. At my first interview before I even sat down she said "Is he always such a narcissist?," and went on at length criticizing him harshly. I thought this was an odd thing to do, so I wasn't surprised later to find she'd done the same thing with him and gone on about me. I didn't say anything about Dr. Hale's comments to my children but my ex did, telling them that this professional had diagnosed me as crazy beyond belief and an evil person. She'd given a professional endorsement to his verbal abuse. This caused a great deal of damage to my children and to my relationship with them. It's been seven years and the children have figured things out. My relationships with them are hardly tainted anymore by the things Val Hale and Dad said -I'm not "crazy and evil" anymore. But it's seven years later, and a lot of pain for my children and myself. There were many sketchy things about the way she conducted the evaluation, and some of the conclusions that she presented to the court are verifiably false and indicate that she left out/ ignored hard evidence and input from other professional counselors - but these did insignificant damage compared to helping Dad convince the kids their Mom was crazy, stupid, and evil. I'd like to leave this in the past, but hope that by writing this review Dr. Hale can be prevented from damaging other families."

"Dr hale did an evaluation on my case a few years ago and she disregarded and ignored information that was given by my ex. She told me it wasn't relevant but it was. In my opinion she is against good fathers. If she would have stopped my ex back then, my child now wouldn't be in the bad position and circumstances right now."