About me

Greetings!

My name is Kylie, and I have been a practicing counselor and counselor educator for the past 12 years. I hold a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision, a Master's degree in School and Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Coaching. I have experience serving a wide variety of young clientele within alternative high schools, private elementary schools, and a program serving youth with diverse special needs. My primary clinical practice has been serving women, children, and families in crisis and recovering from trauma. This included six years in emergency non-profit shelters for clients facing intimate partner violence and comorbid substance abuse. I'm currently a professor in a Master's level counseling program where I teach and supervise counselors-in-training, write and publish research in the field, and present at local, state, and national conferences. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and National Certified Counselor (NCC).

My therapeutic approach intentionally integrates various theoretical models dependent on client need. I believe deepened self-awareness is fundamental to long-term positive change. We all have blind spots, and this is often where our most painful pieces are buried. Along the same lines, I'm not a huge fan of establishing concrete and detailed goals at the outset of treatment. If we're honest with ourselves, most of us don't have a clue what we want to achieve in counseling. What we do know is we want to feel better. We want to forgive and recover from our past, establish peace in our present, and maintain (or create) excitement about our future. Those are all the goals we need to get started on our journey together.

I believe I can help clients increase their holistic self-awareness by shining light onto irrational beliefs, cognitive distortions, existential anxieties, and potential insecure attachment styles. Most people in our lives respond or react to our overt behaviors. I'm interested in understanding the intent behind such behaviors, which is often out of awareness (unconscious). Many of us suffer various forms of trauma, and our brains and bodies create intricate defenses to protect ourselves from future pain. No one is broken, "crazy," or hopeless. Some simply need help understanding why they think, feel, and act the way they do in response to psychological threat. When we feel heard, seen, and validated for our circumstances, the defenses that no longer serve us start to loosen their grip on our lives.

My approach towards couples counseling reflects all of the above foundation with the addition of Dr. John Gottman's influential work. I treat the relationship itself as the central client with a primary focus on understanding how the couple communicates their individual needs to their partner(s) and how each approaches conflict resolution. I believe we sometimes falsely assume our partner wishes to approach conflict and give or receive feedback matches our own preferences. Each individual brings their unique life history and past communication patterns to the current relationship. I believe developing understanding, appreciation, and empathy for these histories is an important starting point in resolving discord or approaching a new future.


Specialties

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Relationships
  • Trauma, Abuse
  • Grief
Also experienced in:
LGBT , Family conflicts , Intimacy-related issues , Self esteem , Career difficulties , Depression , Compassion fatigue , Abandonment , Attachment issues , BDSM, Kink, Alternative Sex Culture , Blended Family Issues , Body image , Read more...

Clinical approaches:
Attachment-Based Therapy, Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Gottman Method, Jungian Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Years of Experience: 14

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

CO LPC 0011604


Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Kylie Rogalla. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Regain might be different.

Written on Sep 30, 2020 after therapy with Kylie for 4 months on issues concerning relationship

Dr. Rogalla has been exceptional in our pre-marital and now marital counseling. She’s educated, helpful, kind and a great listener and she cares so much about our relationship. She’s so easy to talk to end send us resources based on conversations we have in our sessions. She’s always helping us understand each other as individuals and how that relates to our relationship. Couldn’t recommend her enough!

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