work on adapting and personalizing tools to gain awareness and create meaningful change. My goal is to have my clients leave sessions feeling confident to handle the hard days and enjoy every good moment.
work on adapting and personalizing tools to gain awareness and create meaningful change. My goal is to have my clients leave sessions feeling confident to handle the hard days and enjoy every good moment.
I use strategic therapeutic interventions to assist in learning how to regulate emotions, explore why certain patterns of thinking and behaving exist, and heal past wounds. I emphasize clients' self-awareness and building on their strength.
We will collaborate to identify and work towards the changes you want to see, brainstorm ways to overcome patterns you feel stuck in, and support you in gaining the insight needed for progress. We will identify and celebrate each moment of progress.
We will collaborate to identify and work towards the changes you want to see, brainstorm ways to overcome patterns you feel stuck in, and support you in gaining the insight needed for progress. We will identify and celebrate each moment of progress.
My therapeutic approach is relational, strength-based, and trauma-informed. I bring empathy, humor, and a nonjudgmental approach to the therapy space. I use a holistic perspective to the work that allows for shared exploration.
help you grow and heal in order to feel confident, gain self-awareness, and maintain a healthy relationship with yourself and others. My goal is to help you become the best, healed, version of yourself.
help you grow and heal in order to feel confident, gain self-awareness, and maintain a healthy relationship with yourself and others. My goal is to help you become the best, healed, version of yourself.
that it's very different than traditional talk therapy. If you're all "talked out" and ready for a deeper level of healing, Somatic Experiencing is for you. As your therapist, I will work directly with the activation in your nervous system.
Create goals to work on and provide you with the tools needed to achieve your goals both in our sessions and after our sessions have ended. I will empower you to practice these tools so that you can begin to feel better.
Create goals to work on and provide you with the tools needed to achieve your goals both in our sessions and after our sessions have ended. I will empower you to practice these tools so that you can begin to feel better.
My style is collaborative, as you are the true expert on your life. I believe your relationship with me is the foundation for acceptance, healing, and change to occur.
Together you will explore creative holistic approaches to healing the mind, body, and spirit by incorporating different treatment modalities into the therapeutic counseling process.
Together you will explore creative holistic approaches to healing the mind, body, and spirit by incorporating different treatment modalities into the therapeutic counseling process.
Melissa utilizes yoga therapy in her practice, as well as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), The Gottman Method for couples/ marriages, ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), EFT- Emotional Freedom, Mindfulness and Meditation.