About Valerie
Valerie Wolfinger is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on 15 years of experience to support people facing depression, grief, addiction, relationship struggles, and parenting strain. Valerie writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel direct and practical.
She believes people carry lessons from the past that no longer fit their life. Those old beliefs can create thinking errors and stuck patterns that make daily living harder.
Background and approach
In sessions she asks clear questions, uses gentle humor, and encourages practical steps to change how clients respond to problems. Valerie blends client-centered care with goal-focused tools. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts.
She also draws on mindfulness skills to help people stay present and solution-focused techniques for concrete progress. Her background includes work with trauma and substance use concerns, as well as perinatal challenges such as postpartum and fertility-related stress. She has supported people through grief, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and family or caregiver stress.
Outside of work she is a parent who enjoys reading, cooking, and TV. Valerie earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and a master’s degree from the University of Dayton, where she graduated magna cum laude. She practices in Ohio and offers sessions in English.
How Valerie uses practical therapies online
Valerie combines client-centered care with structured tools to help people online. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and meeting a person where they are. This approach helps people feel heard and makes it easier to try new ways of coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Valerie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time. That collaborative process lets therapy stay practical and focused on small, achievable changes. Online sessions can fit different needs and schedules. Video calls let people work face to face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, step-by-step homework, or shorter conversations between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain therapy around work, parenting, or busy days.Questions people ask
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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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