Kaley Madden, TLLP

Hiiiiiiii, my name is Kaley Madden! I have been and will continue to be many things, however in this present iteration I am a Temporary Limited License Psychologist, as well as a certified School Psychologist!

I regard the therapeutic environment as the ideal space to collaborate on healing the engineered grief and nervous system dysregulation foisted on us by neoliberal capitalism and its agents, as well as our distinctly modern problems; omnipresent social media and information overload, climate change and mass extinction grief, and political and social fascism.

My practice as a therapist in a broad sense is eclectic, combining multiple approaches to meet the unique needs of the client. I am heavily influenced by humanistic therapy; believing that discovering and living life as your true self is the path to the most fulfilling and meaningful existence. My therapeutic work is underpinned by cognitive restructuring, and I dabble in nervous system work, parts work, value system audits, as well as the principles of Acceptance and Commitment therapy; believing without “negativity” we would not know joy or pleasure, and that a crucial component of the healing journey is the acceptance of negative thoughts or experiences as innate within the spectrum of human experience.

I find great joy in working with the misfits among us regardless of age; the jesters, the witches, the punks and anarchists, the yappers, the over and under-stimulated, the inattentive, the highly sensitive, the angry, the outsiders, the pathologized, and the out of place. I am especially curious about working with individuals on psychological divestment from social media and AI, small acts of disobedience in the face of fascism, and increasing nervous system tolerance for living life as your authentic self.

Outside of my work, I enjoy watching anime with my husband and our two cats Jimmy and Halloween, reading smut and nonfiction about the end of the world, and resting my eyes (napping lol).