Valerie Wolfinger, LPCC

Valerie Wolfinger is an Ohio LPCC with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, depression, parenting strains, anger, and related concerns. Valerie brings a direct, down-to-earth style to sessions and uses practical conversation to help people make changes that fit daily life.

She explains that many unhelpful beliefs come from past experiences and can get stuck over time. Valerie aims to help people notice thinking patterns and habits that no longer serve them. She uses clear questions and occasional humor to move the work forward, rather than lingering on theory.

Her clinical approach draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. That means she listens for what matters most to each person, then suggests small, concrete steps to test new ways of thinking and behaving. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when people are weighing change or dealing with substance concerns.

Valerie has worked with a wide range of issues including postpartum and fertility-related stress, trauma, PTSD, substance use, and relationship challenges. She also notes experience with attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family dynamics, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and kink and alternative sexual cultures.

Outside of clinical work she is a parent of four, enjoys reading, cooking, and relaxed TV time. Her training includes a master’s degree from the University of Dayton and undergraduate study in Health and Human Services at Ohio University.

How Valerie’s approaches translate to online work