About Norene
Norene Vello is a licensed professional counselor in Ohio with 20 years of experience. She earned a master's degree in Pastoral Clinical Counseling and has spent two decades helping people navigate major life changes and emotional pain. She focuses on issues such as grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and problems tied to self-esteem and relationships.
She also works with concerns like trauma and abuse, ADHD, career questions, and family-related stress. Additional areas of attention include abandonment, codependency, guilt and shame, loneliness, forgiveness, and women's issues.
How Norene works
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Sessions often include breathing exercises, thought work, and reflective activities that connect feelings, beliefs, and behavior. The goal is to help people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Norene draws on spiritual and pastoral-informed tools when that fits a person's values. She has long led women's small groups using meditation, journaling, art, and discussion to address depression, anxiety, and self-destructive patterns. This background informs a holistic view of emotional life that includes physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs.
In sessions she aims to offer steady presence, listening, and nonjudgmental guidance. She helps people name what feels broken, practice new ways of responding, and work toward increased peace and healthier patterns.
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What Norene works with
The areas below are the ones Norene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their experience at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, follows what matters most to the client, and helps people find their own solutions and strengths. This approach supports concerns like low self-esteem, relationship stress, and the search for meaning.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Mindfulness techniques add simple breathing and attention practices to reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what works.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face from home, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life transitions.
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