About Perry
Perry Malzahn is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and guiding them through major life changes. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping clients find clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Perry uses methods grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on trauma-focused work and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for people processing painful memories.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, achievable goals in everyday life. Clients come for a range of concerns including depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, and attention difficulties. Perry also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment wounds, blended family dynamics, infidelity, and fertility-related stress.
She has experience with post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related problems. Perry offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, which lets people choose what fits their schedule and comfort. She practices from Kansas and holds the KS LSCSW credential.
Sessions are conducted in English. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people set manageable steps, practice skills between sessions, and notice small changes.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's needs.
Therapeutic approaches that work online and in life
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching concrete tools to test thoughts and shift routines.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce emotional intensity around those events. It is often used when past experiences continue to cause strong reactions in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Perry will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels doable, then recommend strategies to try. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, try quick skills, or check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or childcare while still using CBT and trauma-focused methods effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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