About Valerie
Valerie Wolfinger helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems, and substance use. She also supports those coping with trauma, parenting challenges, LGBT concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Valerie holds an OH LPCC credential and brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her approach is direct and practical. She favors a person-centered style that puts the client’s goals first. Sessions often use plain talk, occasional humor, and challenging questions to help people see stuck patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
Valerie often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thinking errors and test new ideas. She also uses mindfulness exercises to build attention and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods help clients find small, concrete steps toward change.
She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, bipolar symptoms, anger, abandonment and attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and sexual subcultures such as BDSM and kink. Valerie also supports people dealing with career decisions, feelings of emptiness, and separation or divorce.
Outside of practice she enjoys reading, cooking, streaming TV, and spending time with her four children. Her training includes a master’s degree and a background in family studies, and she brings that family-focused perspective into practical, real-world work in sessions.
How Valerie’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s goals. It helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Valerie collaborates with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and situation. She may combine client-centered listening with CBT tools or mindfulness exercises based on what helps the client make steady progress.
Online sessions let people access her methods from different places. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, planning next steps, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit regular work on goals into a busy life.
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What this counselor 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