Valerie Malicki , LPCC

Valerie Malicki is a licensed therapist in Ohio with more than 20 years of combined professional experience as a therapist, life coach, and certified mentor. She holds an LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and brings a practical focus on helping people move past inner barriers to create meaningful change in their lives.

Her work centers on empowerment and transformation at a core level, offering sessions grounded in empathy, hope, and realistic next steps. Valerie specializes in relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, self-esteem and confidence work, motivation, and clearing emotional blocks that interfere with daily life and important connections. Her background also encompasses support for marriage and mothering concerns as well as exploration of life purpose and midlife transitions.

Valerie’s approach draws on decades of personal and professional experience. She and her husband have been together for nearly 20 years, and she has raised four homeschooled children while living on a rural homestead among chickens, rottweilers, butterflies, and bullfrogs. That life experience informs a compassionate, down-to-earth style that honors each person as the expert of their own story. She emphasizes practical skills learned week by week to help individuals design a life aligned with their values and deepest aspirations.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Valerie draws from several established methods to address relationship patterns, personal narrative, and trauma. Imago Relationship Therapy focuses on how early relationship dynamics shape adult partnerships and offers structured dialogue techniques to improve connection and mutual understanding. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe and re-author the stories they tell about themselves, highlighting strengths and shifting the meanings that maintain unhelpful patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the effects of traumatic experiences through strategies that reduce distress and support recovery while helping to restore a sense of safety and agency.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Valerie works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve. Licensed professionals often blend approaches to suit individual circumstances.

Online therapy offers flexible access to these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity across life transitions, and engage in therapy from home or elsewhere. The variety of communication styles also allows people to choose what feels most comfortable for discussing sensitive material and practicing new skills between sessions.