About Aaliyah
Aaliyah Rodgers is a Kentucky LCSW who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and the aftermath of trauma. She focuses on clear, practical steps that fit into busy lives. Sessions aim to leave people feeling understood and with tools they can use right away.
She emphasizes a client-centered way of working. That means goals are set together and the pace matches each person's needs. Aaliyah combines conversational, grounded support with structured skills practice so people can try things between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes six years of clinical work across mood and trauma-related concerns. She has experience supporting people after sexual assault and in other forms of trauma, and she brings that experience to work with panic, obsessive worry, and grief. She also supports LGBT clients and people who are neurodivergent, including those with autism or Asperger syndrome.
In sessions she blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR to address distressing memories and current symptoms. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to clarify goals and make step-by-step plans. The focus is on what helps someone move forward, not on labels.
Aaliyah offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. She works collaboratively to find practical strategies for everyday challenges like sleeplessness, overwhelming worry, or sudden panic. People can expect a warm, direct therapist who values honesty, choice, and steady progress.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered therapy is about following the person's lead and shaping sessions around their goals and timing. Online sessions give room for this by letting conversations focus on what matters most to the client and adjusting pace as needed.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce anxiety and panic. In virtual sessions CBT often includes homework like mood logs or short behavioral experiments that are easy to review together on video or chat.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by combining focused processing with guided bilateral stimulation. When done online the therapist guides the steps and tracks responses while the person remains in a familiar setting, making it possible to work on trauma processing across sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the client's comfort and goals, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. Clients help shape what comes next so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for skills practice and EMDR-style processing, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short updates or moments of support between sessions. These options add flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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