Val Walker

Val Walker

Val Walker is a contributing blogger for Psychology Today and the author of The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do for Others in Distress. She has a Master of Science degree in rehabilitation counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University, she has explored and developed the practice of comforting others since facilitating her first support group in 1993 for people living with cancer. She will be discussing her new book, 400 Friends and No One to Call which is a candid and comforting guide for isolating times.