About Mali
Mali Austriyak Mikhli is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience. She brings long practice and steady presence to sessions and aims to help people facing hard moments in life. Mali offers a calm, respectful space where people can talk and make small, practical changes.
She uses a mix of approaches that focus on how people think, feel, and tell their stories. Sessions tend to be warm and interactive.
How Mali works
Mali listens closely, notices patterns, and helps people try new ways of handling stress and relationships. Mali has worked across many cultures, religions, and lifestyles. Her background includes supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, and adjustment after early childhood disruption.
She also helps with anxiety, depression, parenting strains, anger, and issues involving intimacy and self-esteem. Practical problems like career decisions, coping with life changes, and managing bipolar mood swings are part of her practice too. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care matters, attachment and family of origin issues, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and codependency concerns.
She speaks English, Spanish, and Yiddish, and works with people in New York as well as international clients. Mali describes her work as supportive and psychotherapeutic and aims to empower people to take the next steps toward a fuller life.
Mali lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Mali works with
The areas below are the ones Mali selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Yiddish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist offers empathy and nonjudgmental listening to help people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust, improving self-understanding, and working through life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on core emotions and how they shape connections. It can help people understand patterns in relationships and improve emotional closeness and communication.
Mali will work together with each person to figure out which approach fits best. She uses collaboration to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules.
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