She doesn't like being lifted up or touched correct.Val's "problem" is that everyone puts their hands on her and, well, I'm not going to say that she likes it, but she certainly doesn't dislike it, and if that really were a problem for her, those many scenes wouldn't happen.
But when she tells MC the story, how many and what names are given? When she was lifted at the beach and broke down, what was the name of the person that lifted it? Perhaps some overlap there?