Get to Know Mallorie!
Mallorie’s clinical passion is providing specialized, effective therapy services to neurodivergent folks and those in relationship with them.
Mallorie has extensive experience addressing the following concerns: anxiety, depression, OCD, self-worth, sensory difficulty, trauma, relationship issues, perinatal mental health, perfectionism, parenting challenges and grief.
Mallorie Rodgers, MA, LPC (she/her) offers inclusive and affirming care for individuals ages 12+. Mallorie also offers parent coaching services, providing parents a safe space to build skills, address their own emotion regulation toolbox, and glean trusted information for their unique parenting experience.
Why Neurodiversity Affirming?
After graduating with her Masters in Counseling, Mallorie had the opportunity to work with clients presenting with ADHD and/or trauma. Finding the traditional techniques lacking, Mallorie sought out alternative approaches to utilize in therapy that support neurodivergence holistically. Mallorie gleaned information from people with lived experience, and sought research and training by leaders in the neurodiversity affirming area of the psychotherapy field. (Recommended resources listed here.) It was this initial experience that kickstarted Mallorie’s career of offering an inclusive, neurodiversity affirming therapeutic approach. Mallorie’s hope is to provide a healing experience where people can begin to embrace more of who they are and break free from the shame of being different from “everyone else.”
Mallorie integrates a variety of treatment approaches to best suit each individual client. She believes in the power of holistic, integrative care rooted from an attachment-based lens. Mallorie strives to be neurodiversity affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, anti-racist and HAES aligned.
My therapy style
Inclusive and Collaborative
Belonging and inclusivity are the bedrock of a strong therapeutic relationship.
You may be coming to therapy after years of feeling like you have to “fake it” with the people in your life (or maybe even in past therapy experiences). I consider it an honor to provide a space where you can take a deep breath, kick off your shoes, and start learning what “being yourself” actually means.
My therapeutic process is collaborative. While I am not afraid to challenge you, we will always move at a pace that feels appropriate to you.
If you are looking for a therapist that gives you homework at every session or pulls out worksheets often, I am not the therapist for you. There is nothing wrong with that style, but it’s not mine!
Trauma-Informed
Trauma-informed care is essential to supporting neurodivergent people, as research shows they are statistically more likely to have experienced trauma AND their nervous systems are often more sensitive to the effects of trauma. A really unfortunate double whammy.
Even if you are not neurodivergent or don’t identify with a trauma history, you may benefit from trauma-informed practices.
Neurodiversity affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, Anti-racist and Size Inclusive
Every part of who you are is welcome in therapy, and each part of your identity is important and valuable.
If you identify with one or more marginalized identities, you may have spent significant effort throughout your life trying to be “good enough” to gain a sense of belonging and safety. Therapy should be a safe haven where you can process the impact of marginalization, and identify ways to reverse or combat these narratives in your own life.
“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
— Sangu Mandanna