Valerie Malicki, LPCC

Valerie Malicki is an Ohio-based licensed therapist and LPCC with 20 years of combined professional experience as a therapist, life coach, and certified mentor. She focuses on helping people move past internal barriers to build more fulfilling relationships, increase confidence, and clarify life purpose. Valerie blends practical guidance with emotional support to help clients identify the roots of their struggles and create step-by-step changes that lead to lasting results.

Her clinical interests include relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, self-esteem work, and coaching for life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control difficulties, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, midlife questions, financial stress, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and pregnancy and childbirth. Valerie uses Imago Relationship Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor interventions to each person or couple.

Outside of clinical work, Valerie brings decades of lived experience to her practice, including nearly 20 years of marriage and hands-on parenting of four children while homeschooling. She lives on a rural homestead and often draws on ordinary life rhythms and practical compassion to help people reconnect with their strengths. Valerie approaches therapy with empathy and hope, offering actionable steps clients can use week by week to reshape their lives and relationships.