FOUNDATIONS

About Dr. Mallory

We are all better together. 

I have a passion for working with children, adolescents, and families and specialize in trauma, regulation difficulties, attachment disorders, and self-harm. My approach to therapy prioritizes relationships to find healing and foster growth. Through an attachment-based psychodynamic framework, I strive to join my patients in the memory of their past to repair their foundation, empower their voice, reconnect families, heal from trauma, and strengthen their future. While I maintain a depth oriented lens, my approach to treatment planning commonly incorporates behavioral techniques to best serve my patients. Each treatment plan is individualized based on the patient’s goals, cultural background, and lived experience. 

Client Focus:

• Children
• Adolescents 
• Young Adults
• Adults

Specialties:

• Trauma
• Regulation Difficulties
• Attachment Disorders
• Self-harm

Other Concerns Treated:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Anger
• Substance Use
• Conduct-related Issues
• Social Skills
• Self-Esteem
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Treatment:

• Attachment-Based Psychodynamic
• Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Substances
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Social Skills Training
• Aggression Replacement Therapy

Thoughts About Trauma:

Trauma has a way of claiming your past, your present, and your future. I battle with my clients to reclaim theirs. By use of trauma-informed psychotherapy interventions trauma survivors will learn to re-write their story and overcome trauma symptoms.

Collaboration:

Prior to starting Foundations I worked in a residential setting serving as a clinical supervisor and lead clinician for high-risk children and adolescents. My experience in residential directly informs the private practice psychologist I strive to be, which may seem different to the approach of others. I rely heavily on collaboration with the adults most important to my patients as I believe true change cannot happen in just the 1 hour per week in my office- but must be generalized to their environment and to the people they love most. I invest in the lives of my patients by connecting with their families, teachers, psychiatrists, and pediatricians, as I see fit, to promote lasting growth and change.

Experiential Approach:

Often patients come to therapy to get "rid of" an emotion that is bringing them distress. Rather than trying to eliminate the emotion-my goal is to teach my patients how to view their emotions as communication, validate their experience, and regulate through that emotion in an effective way. I believe the best way to achieve this is to experience the emotion in a safe environment- one that is contained and sturdy. Through use of therapeutic techniques, such as play therapy or ice throwing, your child will become equipped to regulate through a once paralyzing emotion- because let's face it.... life throws curveballs.