About Valerie
Valerie Malicki offers calm, direct support for people facing relationship strain and intimate concerns. She focuses on helping people gain confidence, sort parenting challenges, and find clearer direction in life. Valerie writes short, actionable steps into sessions so clients can try new ways between meetings.
Valerie is a licensed professional clinical counselor, LPCC, based in Ohio with 20 years of experience as a therapist, life coach, and mentor. Her background blends counseling with practical coaching so conversations aim to be hopeful and hands-on.
How Valerie works
She uses the years of practice to help people notice patterns and try different choices. Her practice often centers on relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. She also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds, communication and control issues, body image, caregiver stress, and life purpose questions.
Valerie works with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and challenges around pregnancy and childbirth when relevant to therapy goals. Clinically she draws on Imago Relationship Therapy to look at interaction patterns, Narrative Therapy to rewrite unhelpful stories, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to address painful memories. Sessions are intended to feel empathetic and practical, with clear next steps clients can use between meetings.
Valerie aims to help people move past shame, isolation, and guilt toward clearer choices and renewed confidence. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, steady skill-building, and achievable changes over time.
Valerie lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Valerie works with
The areas below are the ones Valerie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
Imago Relationship Therapy focuses on the interaction patterns between people. It helps identify repetitive habits that create distance and offers practical exercises to improve listening and connection. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their relationships. It helps reframe painful or limiting narratives so new choices become possible. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on addressing the impact of distressing events; it uses techniques to reduce the hold of painful memories and to rebuild a sense of safety and agency.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaboration guides whether sessions emphasize relationship exercises, story work, or trauma-focused strategies so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues when those matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy days. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent work and to use therapeutic tools in real-life moments.
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