Providing psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families looking to mend hurt and strengthen their sense of connection, hope, and meaning in their lives.
Compassionate. Experienced. Collaborative.
The Mendery works with a team of caring professionals devoted to comprehensive care. We strive to provide you with the most cutting edge and evidence-based practices available with multidisciplinary collaboration.
Our Core Values
- Delight
- Witnessing
- Inherent Worth
- Tenderness
- Community
- Acceptance
- Hope
- Connection
- Curiousity
Meet Your Provider
Lily Carrera, LCSW
Joelle Pahl, LCSW
Alyssa Strenger, PSYD
Ally Raye - Care Facilitator
We Are
.png){kind=icon}
A Community
We believe you are not meant to go through life alone. The Mendery is a place for people of all cultures and identities to come for mental health support. We are a collective of hope holders for our clients, seeking to lighten the load of pain and suffering, not through quick fixes but through sustained, long-term relationships.
Growing
We give people permission to stop striving. If you feel like you are never enough and the shame you carry has gotten you stuck, The Mendery is a place to be met exactly where you are. Change is an inevitable part of life and we arrive at one place only to be moved on to the next. Therapy is a space to try out new ways of being in the world and in relationships. Every experience is an opportunity to grow.
Collaborative
We believe in the wisdom of multiple minds. Collaboration with other professionals and our clients is an essential part of what we do. We may be experts in psychology, but you are the expert on yourself. At The Mendery, we will help you put words to your questions and concerns as we work towards solutions together.
Witnesses
The most generous thing we can do is listen to your stories with warmth and compassion and not try to fix it. We approach your pain with curiosity and respect and commit to not turn away. You will also find us celebrating in your joy, observing your resilience, and delighting in even the smallest of victories.
Human Beings
“I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to become.” -Carl Jung. Your grief, pain, and suffering do not make you broken, they make you human. We believe that every person has value and resources inside of them. Behaviors are not judged as good or bad, rather they are a way to understand your needs and the ways you have learned to survive. Your care providers at The Mendery share their own humanity through humor, tenderness, and vulnerability.
