Brad Maliszewski, LPC - Therapist in Michigan

About Brad

Brad Maliszewski is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. He focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, relationships, and intimacy-related issues. Brad aims to offer clear, practical steps in conversations that feel direct but calm.

Parents and adults will find straightforward guidance for everyday problems. He uses a mix of therapeutic styles to suit different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build better coping habits.

Background and approach

The Gottman Method offers concrete tools for improving communication and managing conflict in relationships. Client-Centered work creates a space where a person’s goals lead the conversation. Brad draws on long practice to address blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and communication problems.

He also works with feelings like guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Sessions often include skill-building, practical feedback, and focused conversation about what is happening at home. People typically leave sessions with small, doable tasks to practice between meetings.

He prioritizes clear explanations over technical jargon. The pace and focus change to match what each person needs that week. Brad is based in Michigan and offers therapy in English.

His counseling emphasizes steady progress, better daily routines, and clearer ways to talk with the people who matter most.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Brad often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and learning practical skills to change reactions, which helps with anxiety, stress, and daily coping. The Gottman Method centers on improving communication and reducing conflict in close relationships through specific exercises and structured conversation techniques.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on each person's goals, concerns, and preferences. Clients can expect to talk about what has helped before and try approaches that feel most natural for their situation.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. These options allow sessions from home or work and support regular, ongoing work even when life is busy. The variety of formats makes it simpler to maintain momentum between appointments and to use the tools practiced in sessions in day-to-day life.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Gottman Method

A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems can be addressed in sessions?

He helps with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related problems, self esteem, parenting, anger, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include blended family issues, divorce and separation, communication problems, guilt and shame, infidelity, isolation or loneliness, and life purpose.

What is his general therapy style?

Brad blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method or psychodynamic ideas as needed. That means sessions center the client's goals, work on unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and use concrete communication tools when relationships are involved.

How long has he been practicing?

He has 25 years of clinical experience working with adults on interpersonal and life transition issues. That background informs practical, experience-based guidance in sessions.

Where is he licensed and located?

Brad holds an LPC credential with license number MI LPC 6401006894 and practices in Michigan. Sessions are conducted with him as a licensed professional counselor.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with him?

International clients are not currently accepted. He works with people located within the supported regions.

What formats are available for sessions?

Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Multiple formats allow flexibility to fit different schedules and needs.

How are costs and getting started handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 25 years
Licensed: Michigan
Languages: English

Next step

Talk to Brad

Takes a few minutes
Nothing to set up just to look
Stop at any point

Book with Brad