About Valerie
Valerie Malicki is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people untangle relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports parents who feel stuck, and helps people rebuild self-esteem and motivation. Valerie brings practical steps and steady encouragement to each session.
With two decades of experience, Valerie blends therapy and coaching to guide change that lasts. She uses tried approaches to look at how stories and past hurts shape current relationships and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, workable shifts that lead to clearer communication and more connection. Valerie draws on Imago Relationship Therapy to help partners notice patterns that create distance and to practice new ways of listening. Narrative Therapy is used to separate problems from personal identity so clients can rewrite limiting stories.
She also applies Trauma-Focused Therapy when past hurts are getting in the way of daily life and relationships. Her style is warm and direct. Valerie offers empathy paired with concrete next steps clients can try between sessions.
She frames challenges as solvable problems and celebrates small wins along the way. Valerie lives in Ohio and has worked as a therapist, life coach, and mentor. Her background includes parenting four children and managing a busy household, which she says informs her practical approach to real-life issues.
She aims to help people move from stuck to functioning with more confidence and purpose.
How her approaches work online
Imago Relationship Therapy focuses on how partners get stuck in repeating patterns and teaches structured dialog to improve listening and safety in conversations. It is useful for people wanting clearer communication and more emotional closeness.Narrative Therapy helps separate a person from their problems by looking at the stories they tell about themselves. This approach supports people who want to rewrite limiting beliefs and regain control over how they view their life.
Trauma-Focused Therapy looks at how past painful events affect current behavior and relationships, and it offers step-by-step ways to reduce their day-to-day impact. This approach is used when trauma memories or reactions interfere with present goals.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, current challenges, and personal preferences, then suggest which methods to try. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can use less bandwidth, live chat can provide a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief reflection between meetings. These options add flexibility for scheduling and for how people prefer to communicate.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English