Perry Malzahn

Perry Malzahn is an LSCSW with 15 years of clinical experience helping people through major life changes. She focuses on clear, practical steps so clients can feel steadier and more capable. Perry approaches therapy with a caring, down-to-earth manner aimed at real-life results.

Perry works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also helps those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, fertility and peripartum issues, and attention-deficit challenges. Her background includes work with people affected by infidelity, attachment wounds, blended family adjustments, and family-of-origin problems.

Her approach blends several established methods. Perry uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. For trauma, she offers trauma-focused care and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing work when appropriate.

Perry has experience supporting people connected to the military and veterans through issues related to trauma and transition. She has worked across age groups including children, adolescents, and adults, and is comfortable addressing problems that span generations in a family.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Perry encourages clients to set concrete, manageable goals and to track progress between meetings. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Perry often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is hands-on and goal-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. She also incorporates trauma-focused therapy and EMDR for people carrying distress from past events; these approaches work to reduce the emotional charge of traumatic memories and support recovery.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Perry discusses your history, current needs, and goals and picks methods that fit your situation. She treats the choice of approach as a collaboration and adjusts tactics as progress is tracked over time.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow more flexibility for short check-ins or regular weekly meetings. Talk with Perry about scheduling preferences and practical needs so sessions fit into everyday life.