Valerie Wolfinger, LPCC

Valerie Wolfinger is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She focuses on practical change and clear communication, using a straightforward style that mixes warmth and direct feedback. Valerie aims to help people recognize old patterns that no longer serve them and try new ways of coping and decision making.

Valerie describes her work as client-centered and humanistic. She listens for the life experiences that shaped a person's beliefs, then helps untangle thinking errors and unhelpful assumptions. Sessions often include questions that challenge stuck thinking and small steps to test new behaviors between meetings.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior that maintain distress. Mindfulness practices are offered to help people notice emotional and physical signals in the moment. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used to build momentum and practical goals when change feels overwhelming.

Her experience includes supporting people with trauma-related concerns, postpartum and fertility-related distress, relationship challenges, substance use, and caregiver strain. Valerie works with concerns such as bipolar mood concerns, chronic illness stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and navigating complex family dynamics.

Away from work she spends time with her four children, reads, watches streaming shows, and cooks. She completed a master's degree at the University of Dayton, graduating magna cum laude, after earning a bachelor’s in Health and Human Services with a focus on Family Studies from Ohio University.

How Valerie’s approaches translate to online work

Valerie commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on the client's perspective and priorities. This approach means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set the pace and goals for change. It can help with relationship challenges, grief, and coping with health-related life changes.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT offers practical tools and short exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness techniques are used alongside CBT to increase awareness of bodily and emotional signals and to reduce reactivity.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Valerie will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then recommend options to try. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels comfortable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people practice new skills in their everyday routines and bring real-life examples directly into sessions.