Kenneth Mallon, LMFT (#133288), PsyD
Relationship and Conflict Specialist
Dr. Mallon is a licensed relational psychotherapist who works with individuals, couples, and families facing conflict, transition, and emotional strain. His work focuses on helping people navigate complex relationship dynamics and periods of change with greater clarity, stability, and emotional understanding..
In his divorce-related work, Dr. Mallon provides specialized support in co-parenting, child and parent-child therapy, reunification, discernment counseling, and custody-related evaluations. He is often sought out in court-ordered circumstances.
Before becoming a therapist, Dr. Mallon spent over 30 years working in the technology sector managing research, product development, and data science teams. This background informs a thoughtful, structured approach to therapy that balances emotional depth with clarity and practical problem-solving.
Dr. Mallon holds graduate degrees in statistics (MS, Stanford), health sciences (MHS, Johns Hopkins), and clinical psychology (MS, Notre Dame de Namur; PsyD, California Southern University). His doctoral and ongoing research is on the keys to long-term relationship harmony.
Dr. Mallon's therapeutic style is immersive, empathic, and direct. He works collaboratively with clients to reduce entrenched conflict, increase emotional understanding, and support more stable, workable relationships during periods of relational rupture and change.
On this page, you’ll find information about:
- Individual therapy for relationship issues, identity support, and life transitions
- Couples and family therapy, including Gottman-based couples work and intergenerational conflict
- Divorce-related services, such as discernment counseling, co-parenting support, custody mediation, and reunification therapy
Rates for 50-minute sessions:
• $300 – Individuals
• $325 – Couples/Families
• $350 – Divorce, co-parenting, and custody-related services
Dr. Mallon is also licensed in South Carolina for telehealth (#2100):
"Complex" Couples Counseling
Many couples grow apart—not from lack of love, but from not knowing how to sustain emotional connection. Over time, work, parenting, and unresolved conflict can erode intimacy, leaving partners feeling stuck or alone.
These challenges can be even more complex when compounded by factors such as medical issues, personality disorders, PTSD, or substance use. Dr. Mallon specializes in complex couples counseling.
A Gottman-trained therapist, Dr. Mallon provides tools to help couples with the two things that most drive them apart: criticism and defensiveness. He integrates evidence-based communication tools with a deep understanding of individual emotional triggers, mental health dynamics, and the added layers of complexity some couples face, helping partners rebuild trust, safety, and closeness.
Each couple receives a tailored assessment and roadmap for growth, including:
- A Gottman-based assessment covering conflict patterns, communication, commitment, and romance
- A two-way love language review, helping partners better give and receive emotional connection
- A couples-focused attachment style overview to clarify underlying relational patterns
Dr. Mallon's experience is highly inclusive and includes work with gay, lesbian, poly, pansexual and d/s couples.
Individual Therapy
Through life's ups and down, there are periods where we may feel lost, anxious, overwhelmed, or unsure of who we are. Our emotions help guide us, but they can also become intense, confusing, or hard to manage—especially during periods of change or uncertainty.
Therapy offers a space to understand yourself, your emotions, and the patterns shaping your relationships. Dr. Mallon helps clients move from distress to clarity and growth with a grounded, compassionate approach.
His work in individual therapy focuses on three key areas:
Relationship concerns – Support for starting, strengthening, or ending relationships, with focus on healthy communication, emotional insight, and boundaries.
Identity support – Affirming therapy to help adolescents and adults build confidence in their sexuality or gender identity .
Life transitions – Guidance through major changes such as marriage, divorce, career shifts, health issues, grief, or loss.
Family Therapy - Adults
Adult family conflict can be especially painful. Old patterns resurface, communication breaks down, and relationships that once felt close can become tense, distant, or emotionally charged. Family therapy creates a space to begin healing these long-standing dynamics.
Dr. Mallon works with adult families navigating issues such as:
- Strained parent–adult child relationships
- Unresolved sibling tension or rivalry
- Caregiving stress, inheritance disputes, and value clashes
Dr. Mallon is a versatile family therapist who draws upon a range of techniques depending on the family including Bowenian, Immersive, Structural, Systemic, Narrative, and Emotionally Focused methods.
Whether the conflict is rooted in recent events or decades of history, therapy helps families unpack emotions, set clearer boundaries, and build more respectful, compassionate connections moving forward.
Family Therapy - Adults and Teens
Adolescence is a time of growth, emotion, and exploration—but it can also bring intense challenges to the parent–teen relationship. As teens seek independence, impulsivity and conflict can rise. Parents often struggle to guide their children through these transitions while also adapting to new cultural, social, and digital realities.
Family therapy helps teens and parents move from misunderstanding to mutual respect. Common issues include conflict around school, chores, screen time, boundaries, identity, and emotional regulation.
Dr. Mallon has raised two teens and studied the unique pressures of modern adolescence. He helps families improve communication, reduce reactivity, and create calmer, more connected homes.
Discernment Counseling & Relationship Transition
Not every couple enters therapy hoping to save the relationship. Sometimes, one person is leaning out while the other is still holding on. Other times, both partners have agreed to end the relationship, but need help doing so with care and clarity.
Dr. Mallon offers two distinct forms of support for couples navigating these complex crossroads:
- Discernment Counseling – This short-term, structured process is designed for couples where one partner is unsure about continuing the relationship. It’s not couples therapy—it’s a space to slow down, gain insight, and make a clear, informed decision about whether to commit to working on the relationship or to separate.
- Relationship Transition Support – For couples who have decided to part ways, Dr. Mallon provides guidance through the emotional and logistical challenges of separation. This may include support for co-parenting, redefining boundaries, and achieving a respectful and emotionally healthy closure.
These services offer a nonjudgmental space for reflection, honesty, and forward movement—no matter which direction that takes.
Custody & Mediation Services
Separation and divorce are often emotionally charged—and the conflict can quickly spill into parenting.
Dr. Mallon offers two types of services to help families navigate this difficult terrain with greater clarity, structure, and care:
- Custody evaluations and parenting plan support – As a neutral third party, Dr. Mallon conducts parent-child assessments, consults with teachers and therapists when needed, and integrates academic and clinical input to help shape balanced, child-focused custody agreements.
- Mediation and co-/parallel parenting support – For parents looking to reduce conflict and communicate more effectively, Dr. Mallon offers structured mediation and coaching. This includes boundary-setting, skill-building, and collaborative or parallel parenting strategies tailored to each family's needs.
These services are designed to keep children’s well-being at the center—while helping parents move forward with less confusion and more stability.
Court-Ordered Family & Reunification Therapy
When families face court-ordered therapy—whether due to divorce, custody disputes, or parent-child estrangement—it’s often during an emotionally vulnerable time. These cases can be complex, but with the right structure and support, healing is possible.
Dr. Mallon provides therapy in court-mandated contexts to support:
- Co-parenting and parallel parenting
- Parent–child reunification
- Parental alienation dynamics
He works closely with families, attorneys, and the court system to design child-centered, evidence-based interventions that restore trust and stability. The goal is to prioritize emotional well-being while helping families move toward sustainable, functional relationships.
Whether the work involves slowly rebuilding a strained parent-child bond or navigating the pressures of a contested custody case, Dr. Mallon provides a structured, compassionate space where families can begin to repair and reconnect.