About Mallery
Mallery Higgs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She brings eleven years of clinical experience to her work and a long history of coaching and mentoring. Her background as a former student-athlete informs how she approaches stress and performance concerns.
She speaks English and works with people one-on-one. Mallery aims to make therapy a practical place to solve problems. She helps people break down overwhelming feelings into manageable steps.
Background and approach
Common topics she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and adjusting to life changes. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She uses client-centered methods to listen and follow each person’s pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are added when breathing and present-moment awareness can calm intense emotion. Solution-focused strategies help set clear goals and find small, practical changes that add up.
Mallery also pays attention to attachment, abandonment, control issues, guilt and shame, and multicultural concerns. In sessions she aims to be warm, direct, and goal-oriented. People can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and planning between appointments.
Her focus is on helping people build self-love and steady coping skills for daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are, with the therapist following the client’s lead to explore concerns. This approach is helpful when someone needs a supportive space to be heard and to build self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In practical terms this means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying new responses, and tracking small changes that improve mood and daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining listening-focused care with CBT exercises or mindfulness practice over time.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can use the style and pace that helps them progress.
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- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English