Valerie Wolfinger, LPCC

Valerie Wolfinger is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship pain, addiction, grief, and mood struggles. She works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way and aims to help people find clearer thinking and healthier patterns. Valerie uses humor and direct questions when helpful, and she supports clients through emotion and practical change.

Valerie believes past experiences often shape how people see the world. Those early lessons can feel true long after they stop working. She helps clients identify thinking errors and unhelpful beliefs, and then tests new ways of responding in everyday life.

In sessions she draws on client-centered and humanistic ideas, focusing on each person’s goals and strengths. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns of thought and behavior that cause distress. Solution-focused techniques are used when people want concrete steps and short-term goals.

Her background includes work with issues like postpartum and fertility-related concerns, trauma and PTSD, substance use, and varied relationship challenges. Valerie mixes warmth with a direct style, aiming to get to the heart of a problem while keeping the work practical and often even a little bit fun.

Outside of her practice she spends time with her four children, reads, watches streaming shows, and cooks. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Dayton and completed undergraduate study at Ohio University.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Valerie uses client-centered methods that focus on the person's goals and strengths, helping people feel heard while deciding what change looks like. This approach helps when someone needs support sorting values, emotions, or relationship choices.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small changes that reduce anxiety, depression, or anger.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative decision makes sessions more useful and keeps the work focused on what matters most to the client.

Session logistics are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten travel time, or allow quick check-ins between appointments. Therapists and licensed professionals often adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so people can practice change in real life.