Jaidelynn Rogers

Whether you're navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, deepening intimacy, or exploring relationship growth, I provide affirming therapy for LGBTQ+ relationships of all types. I integrate Gottman Method, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Feminist Multicultural Therapy to help partners feel seen, connected, and understood. My training and professional experience working with LGBTQ+ clients is extensive and has been a central focus of my education, research, and clinical practice. While completing my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), my primary advisor was an LGBTQ+ specialist counseling psychologist. My master's thesis examined LGBTQ+ couples, minority stress, and relationship satisfaction, and my doctoral dissertation explored the lived experiences of queer, fat women. Following graduate school, I completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at an LGBTQ+ therapy nonprofit, where I co-created and facilitated a transgender-affirming therapy group. Throughout my career, I have remained committed to serving the LGBTQ+ community, and my current practice is dedicated exclusively to working with the LGBTQIA2+ community. My approach to affirming therapy as a queer clinician is through lived experience, curiosity, respect, and cultural humility. I welcome feedback from my clients and believe that true therapeutic growth is only reached by establishing a strong therapeutic relationship, which requires understanding, trust, and safety. It is important to me that my clients know I care about them as people and that this isn't "just a job." In the therapy space, I use curiosity, authenticity, and humor to build genuine relationships with my clients. All identities and feelings are welcome here. I am private pay, telehealth only and offer sliding scale spots for clients with financial need. Accepting couples/relationship therapy clients only at this time.