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.
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.
Take an honest look at what you have been carrying around with you and how you can start to put what has been weighing on you down, piece by piece. Life throws a lot of stuff at us - It's helpful to have someone to help you sort it all out.
Take an honest look at what you have been carrying around with you and how you can start to put what has been weighing on you down, piece by piece. Life throws a lot of stuff at us - It's helpful to have someone to help you sort it all out.
I am not the therapist who will just "umm hmm" and "How does that make you feel"...I'm much more direct than many therapists, though I will go at your pace. I am EMDR certified but I do not use EMDR with every client if it is not needed or desired.
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.
Identify steps to address current and/or ongoing stressors and help you feel empowered to make any desired changes.
Identify steps to address current and/or ongoing stressors and help you feel empowered to make any desired changes.
My approach is person-centered, strengths-based and trauma-informed. I strive to provide concrete tools and coping strategies for immediate relief while also providing a safe, non-judgmental space to process thoughts and feelings in your own time.