Valerie Varan, MS, LPC, NCC
Life coaching for sensitive and evolving souls
Licensed Professional Counselor and Holistic Life Coach. Quantum Psychology Pioneer, Author, Speaker, Lifelong Spiritual Experiencer.
Touch the water
Ways to work with Valerie
How Valerie can help
If you’re seeking leading-edge help for mind, body, energy, soul, relationships and career, then you’re in the right place!
- Holistic Life CoachingCareer, relationships, life stresses, mind-body wellness, grief workLearn more
- Spiritual Life CoachingSupport and skills to improve your well-being, within the context of your own faith and belief systemLearn more
- Spiritual Experiencer SupportFor spiritually-transformative experiences of all kinds: spiritual/mystical, noetic, near-death, out-of-body, kundalini/psychic awakening, and moreLearn more
- Experiencer Support GroupsNationally via Zoom, or in person at your place of worshipLearn more
- Energy & Quantum PsychologyFor practitioners and laypersons exploring what quantum physics and biology mean for consciousness and daily lifeLearn more
- Speaking & WorkshopsEnergy, consciousness and quantum psychology, and spiritual experiences support groupsLearn more
Valerie Varan, MS, LPC, NCC
Over 25 years of experience
Over twenty-five years of experience helping adults and teens with conventional plus holistic/integrative approaches to mental health. Now specializing in coaching those who have had spiritually-transformative experiences.
- CACREP-accredited master of science in counseling psychology, 2001
- Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor & National Certified Counselor since 2002
- Private practice since 2006
- Over twenty years of gathering together the best tools from western and eastern psychology
- Multi-disciplinary approach informed by new advances in neuroscience, epigenetics, transpersonal and even quantum science
- Author of the self-help book, Living in a Quantum Reality: Using Quantum Physics and Psychology to Embrace Your Higher Consciousness, based on her experience in life and in private practice
- Specialized help for those who have had a near-death, out-of-body or spiritually-transformative type of experience
- For those with more energy awareness and sensitivity, Valerie adds energy psychology to your toolkit; she is sought out as a pioneer of what some are now calling quantum psychology
- Wellness/Life coaching for those who need the tools to feel good in all aspects of their lives – mind, body, energy and soul
- Experience includes treatment of mental health disorders in various settings such as private practice, residential treatment, community mental health, as well as child welfare and juvenile justice programs
View my profile on Psychology Today.
A path of light
Milestones
- 2001Master of science in counseling psychology, from a CACREP-accredited program
- 2002Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor
- 2006Private practice
- 2015Author of Living in a Quantum Reality
- 2017IANDS conference: Quantum Nature of Healing Light & Love
- 2022IANDS conference: Maintaining Luminous Love
- 2024The Nature of Reality interviews on her YouTube channel
- 2025IANDS California Central Coast: Explaining the Unexplainable
- TodayCoaching adults and teens, and writing a book with quantum engineer Doug Matzke, PhD
Tools for mind, body, energy and soul
One light, four colors
Holistic coaching views each person through the lens of the whole, which includes both the inner and outer spheres of being.
White light in, four colors out
Mind
New constructive thinking habits, mindfulness and other ways to improve focus and attention, easier exercises to focus and even quiet the mind
Body
Use of nutrition to calm emotions and improve sleep, movements to release tension and strong emotions, activities to re-energize passions and cultivate well-being
Energy
Somatic or energy-based tools to release stress or negative emotion/energy, focused awareness to develop subtle energy perception and intuition
Soul
Deep subtle energy awareness to reach higher levels of consciousness and enhance intuition; dreamwork; integration of near-death or spiritual experiences; “co-creation” activities to facilitate synchronicities and manifest in life in cooperation with That which is higher
Her self-help book
Living in a Quantum Reality
Using Quantum Physics and Psychology to Embrace Your Higher Consciousness
For those who have experienced a transpersonal or spiritual awakening, it can be difficult to come to terms with the experience. The book is based on Valerie’s experience in life and in private practice.
This is a welcome addition to the growing literature of quantum psychology. I found it interesting and useful and you will too. The author has a lively readable style to boot.
Amit Goswami, quantum physicist and author of Quantum Creativity and Quantum Economics
Events
Recent: a live conversation with Valerie
Living in a Quantum Reality
October 22, 2026 · 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Eastern · live broadcast
Live! Interview with Valerie, based on her experiencer self-help book. 90-minute interview and 30-minute Q/A.
In the news
A quantum psychology pioneer
A Quantum Psychology pioneer, Valerie loves learning and sharing her findings about how spiritual experiences are indeed possible.
Below is her most recent IANDS talk, this time to the California Central Coast group!
She is also currently writing a book with quantum engineer Doug Matzke PhD! This book aims to give the lay reader the most up-to-date quantum-information model of consciousness that validates those who have had spiritually-transformative experiences.
Below you can find Valerie’s Part 1 and 2 of her original interview with “Quantum Doug”, where he first began trying to help her understand his mathematical “bit physics” model. Since then, these conversations have led Doug to update his model, and introduce “Existons” as the discrete unit of consciousness, out of which our physical universe is constructed. In this model, consciousness is no longer emergent, but fundamental and built in before space, time, energy and matter arise. All things are conscious. Subjective experience, meaning, synchronicity, Law of Attraction all are explained. For consciousness researchers out there, the math supports the model, and paves the way for a more Quantum Psychology.
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Explaining the Unexplainable: IANDS 10/1/25
In Valerie’s presentation to the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) California Central Coast group, she shares how common are many types of spiritual…
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Dr. Doug Matzke Interview on Quantum Mind, Part 2 of 2
Join this Part 2 of 2 interview with quantum engineer, Dr. Doug Matzke, as he explains about our aura, chakras, orbs, subtle energy light…
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Dr. Doug Matzke Interview on Quantum Mind, Part 1 of 2
In this video series interview Part 1-2, quantum engineer Doug Matzke addresses Valerie’s questions about his Quantum Mind Source Science Model, a scientific basis…
Reviews
Kind words from physicists, clinicians and listeners
Kind words: press a firefly
This is a welcome addition to the growing literature of quantum psychology. I found it interesting and useful and you will too. The author has a lively readable style to boot.
Amit Goswami, quantum physicist and author of Quantum Creativity and Quantum Economics
"just experienced a master teacher, a master lecturer!"
Presentation attendee (P.)
"It was truly one of the most amazing meetings. You are a wealth of knowledge and wisdom….I loved having you speak. You were so well prepared and covered so many aspects of quantum physics and its connection with STE's and NDE's. Very articulate! Excellent job! I can't thank you enough!… Just loved your presentation. It was so deep and insightful. You lived this!"
Presentation attendee (H.)
I felt an internal validation as I read Valerie Varan’s Living in a Quantum Reality: Using Quantum Physics and Psychology to Embrace Your Higher Consciousness, as I have lectured on the quantum effects that are manifested in the fusion of science and spirituality. I believe her book will be especially helpful to my colleagues in the field of transpersonal psychology who are providing therapy to individuals who are encountering body, mind, and spirit phenomena such as near-death experiences. I recommend Varan’s book to the seekers who are looking for an understanding of how we all interface as actors and observers in this quantum oneness.
Neil Helm, PhD, former NASA engineer, Nobel Prize nominee, transpersonal psychologist
"my appreciation to you for your talk and presentation which was absolutely terrific"
Presentation attendee (D.)
I have, as a clinical social worker doing independent practice twenty-three years, used energy psychology for seventeen years as a mainstay of my work with clients. However, I have always wanted a more in-depth understanding of the way energy actually operates in the body/mind. What Valerie shares about energy makes this possible. I have been astonished at her curiosity into and the scope of her knowledge of energy, and how we can take more advantage of it in the process of growth and healing.
John Harder, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
As I am reading Valerie's book, I am struck with the exciting possibilities of what it would be like to vibrate with higher energies on a more regular basis. Finally, I can "see" that dissolving my human boundaries doesn't have to feel scarey because I might be "losing" myself, but rather that I would be GAINING the Universe and the thrilling possibility of what that might mean. It has helped me realize how my fears are holding me back to "becoming" what I am meant to be. The more I read, the more excited I become and the higher I vibrate!! I can honestly say that for the first time I am understanding what it feels like to "let go" and feel the subtle connectedness to all that is!!
Judy Ford, Licensed Professional Counselor
Talks
Classic presentations
For Valerie’s original IANDS conference presentation on how quantum physics has evolved, and helps us explain supposedly “impossible” experiences, check out Quantum Nature of Healing Light & Love: How Quantum Physics and Psychology Affirm NDEs. You will see the development of thought about the nature of our reality from the old materialistic paradigm of “things”, to the world of energy and electromagnetism, and ultimately to the quantum. The significance of key concepts are explained such as energy coherence, resonance and entrainment; frequencies and fields; to quantum nonlocality, superposition, entanglement, and collapse of the wavefunction. These help us bridge the understanding of consciousness from the spacetime body and correlates in the brain, to that which defys the rules of spacetime, that which we call “quantum”.
In Explaining the Unexplainable, you will hear Valerie’s most up-to-date talk, which gives you the prevalence data on many spiritual, near-death, out-of-body kinds of experiences. Valerie goes on to share why classical, spacetime, electromagnetic scientific explanations cannot be valid, and why we need more quantum/informational theories of nonlocal consciousness. Lastly, Valerie addresses why this should matter to the field of psychotherapy and to each of us!
In Cosmic Mystery, you will hear a more detailed presentation on the numerous forms of extraordinary spiritual experiences. And in Maintaining Luminous Love, you will be lead through some experiential exercises as Valerie helps you tap into higher spiritual Love in a matter of minutes. Enjoy!
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Explaining the Unexplainable: IANDS 10/1/25
In Valerie’s presentation to the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) California Central Coast group, she shares how common are many types of spiritual…
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1. Unraveling the Cosmic Mystery of our Spiritual and Near-Death Experiences, 10/15/22 Presentation to Williamsburg Friends of IANDS
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