About
Dr. Val Camarano, PsyD
Licensed psychologist. Creator of The Facet Method. New York-based, working with people across the country.
Why I do this work
It started with the people I kept meeting.
I trained as a clinical psychologist expecting to do the work I'd been taught — assessment, diagnosis, evidence-based treatment. And I do. But the longer I worked with bright, sensitive, high-capacity adults, the more I noticed something the standard maps weren't describing.
Almost all of them had been children who needed something different — and didn't get it. They'd built brilliant outer lives on top of a quiet sense that they couldn't fully trust themselves. The clinical work helped. But it was missing a piece.
The missing link
If we'd reached them earlier, so much would have been different.
That insight reshaped my work. I started thinking about my adult clients as the future-grown-up versions of kids who needed someone to see them clearly right now. And I started thinking about the parents of those kids as the people who could change the whole trajectory.
The Facet Method came out of that — a framework for working with people at any age, with the same underlying truth: the capacities you need are already in you, waiting for the conditions to come back online.
Training & approach
The lineages behind the work.
The Facet Method is an integration. These are the traditions that shape it.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Neurodiversity-affirming practice
- Trauma & nervous system science
- Developmental & attachment theory
- Psychedelic-assisted therapy training
What I believe
A few things I'm sure of.
- People make sense in context.
- Self-trust can be rebuilt.
- Neurodivergence is not a defect.
- Growth and accommodation can coexist.
- Connection creates change.