Melissa has twenty years combined experience working in frontline mental health, Child & Family Services, and healthcare. Utilizing a strength based, patient centered, and trauma informed approach, she helps clients uncover their unique strengths and needs, tailoring supportive strategies to foster resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful connections within their relationships. Melissa’s approach is holistic and integrative, combining evidence-based approaches including CBT, ERP, Somatic Therapy and EMDR. If you are feeling stressed, exhausted, or worried about the future, Melissa is here to help you. She believes that every person’s story is unique and fosters a therapeutic space where you can feel heard and understood. Melissa will support you in learning new coping strategies and tools, so you can experience more peace and enjoyment in life.
Melissa believes that you can learn a lot about yourself by exploring how your thoughts and feelings drive your behavior. If you are running on empty, feeling overloaded, and not like yourself, Melissa can support the cultivation of skills to help you bounce back.
Melissa also works with couples experiencing challenges and helps couples find their way back to a happy loving relationship. When this is not possible, working through separation in therapy can be a big relief for couples who want to do so in a peaceful and respectful way. Melissa’s background in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution can assist in finding workable solutions and a pathway forward. Melissa utilizes The Gottman Method in her work to help couples work through unresolved relationship issues, which involves learning strategies to improve communication, exploring underlying emotions and finding solutions to conflicts.
Therapist Location | Fees & Session Cost |
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Online Only | $80-$120 Per Session, Sliding Scale, Affordable therapy |
“Love is a verb. Not a permanent state of enthusiasm”
“Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgement, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You are not alone”.