About Mousumi
Mousumi Mallik is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with three years of clinical counseling experience and a long history in human services. She earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Bowling Green State University and is pursuing a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Toledo.
Mousumi has lived and worked across three continents, and she brings that breadth of experience to her practice.
How Mousumi works
She focuses on clear, practical work in sessions. Mousumi helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also supports those navigating relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping concerns, and career or life transitions.
Her background includes work with people facing serious health issues, including cancer, and she describes herself as someone who values kindness and humility. Mousumi uses approaches that help people tell their story, set small goals, and change unhelpful patterns. She applies narrative work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and solution-focused strategies to create manageable treatment plans.
Her style is person-centered and humanistic, aiming to empower each person to steer their own life. Her broad experience includes work with diverse age ranges and with college students, and she has spent many years in teaching and human services roles. That variety informs how she adapts sessions to match where someone is starting from and what they hope to change.
Clients who choose Mousumi can expect a collaborative pacing and practical tools to build resilience. She approaches challenges with empathy and straightforward conversation to help people move toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
What Mousumi works with
The areas below are the ones Mousumi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online counseling
Many of her sessions use narrative approaches that help people reframe their life stories and make sense of difficult experiences. Narrative work is useful for trauma, grief, and identity concerns because it helps separate the person from the problem and opens up new ways to act.She also uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build practical skills. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating struggles, and stress management because it focuses on small, testable changes in thinking and behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. Together you will adapt methods over time so they fit your needs and produce workable steps toward improvement.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets you see facial cues and hold deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when shorter exchanges fit a busy day. These options help people fit counseling into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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