About Valerie
Valerie Wolfinger is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, stress, addictions, relationship problems, and phobias find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Her approach is direct and down-to-earth.
She uses client-centered methods and solution-focused strategies to zero in on what matters most to the person sitting across from her. Valerie blends cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful thinking and test small changes in daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Valerie asks straightforward questions, offers gentle challenge, and uses humor when appropriate. The goal is to identify stuck patterns, try manageable experiments, and build skills that work in real situations.
She has worked with people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and a range of relationship concerns. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, substance use, and issues related to sexual expression and kink culture. Valerie trained at the University of Dayton for her master’s degree and holds a background in family studies from Ohio University.
Outside of work she spends time with her four children, reads, cooks, and watches TV.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and supporting a person to find their own solutions; it helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk and make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect behavior and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and phobias by testing new ways of thinking and acting. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve tolerance for difficult emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Valerie will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the work as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and real-time conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching, ongoing check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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