Norene Vello, LPCC

Norene Vello is an Ohio-based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPCC) who earned a Master of Arts in Pastoral Clinical Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary. She brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work and combines professional training with a faith-informed perspective to support clients through life transitions.

Viewing life as a journey, she offers steady guidance for the bumps and roadblocks people encounter. She approaches each person as a fellow traveler who listens, provides direction, and supports change without judgment, criticism, or condemnation.

Her practice has included collaboration with individuals aged 6 through 82, focusing on self-understanding and making peace with difficult experiences. She uses cognitive and achievement assessments alongside mindfulness breathing exercises and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients develop practical skills and insight.

For nearly two decades she has participated in and co-facilitated small women’s groups, drawing on Biblical principles and spiritual mindfulness as well as meditation, prayer, journaling, art, nature, music, CBT, Positive Therapy, and psychotherapy. Those groups have addressed depression, anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, abuse, and self-destructive behavior patterns.

Her approach to psychotherapy attends to the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual dimensions of a person, with an emphasis on belonging, acceptance, meaning, and purpose as foundations for well-being across the lifespan. The goals she brings to each session include safety, peace, well-being, health, contentment, healing, and wholeness in God. She welcomes the opportunity to walk alongside clients who invite her support.