Seeking support?
Are you feeling overwhelmed, depressed, or stuck in chronic cycles of stress? Whether you're grappling with anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship challenges, support is available to you. No matter how turbulent the waves in your life, you get to be held and heard through them. Healing is a process that unfolds at its own pace, and reaching out for support is a courageous and important step in it.
If you are ready to embark on your journey towards healing and self-discovery, I invite you to reach out.
Healing is possible
You may be facing challenges that seem insurmountable. I am here to affirm that there is hope for your continual return to wellness. I believe in the transformative power of therapy to guide you on a path towards wellness and growth. I am dedicated to providing steady and consistent support as you navigate through the layers of your experiences. My approach is gentle and heart-centered, while also rooted and powerful. I am here to support and challenge you, as well as attune to the uniqueness of your needs. Together, we will create a course of action that meets you where you are in your journey.
We will explore the roots of your challenges, develop internal and external supports, and work towards empowering you to lead a more fulfilling life.
We are meant to heal in community and in relationship with each other. It is in relationships where we identify the uniqueness of our own path, as well as the threads of humanity that we weave through our shared, human experience. I am here to hold a compassionate space for you to navigate your experience.
Embrace the opportunity to rediscover your resilience, gifts, and inner peace. Healing is possible, and I am here to guide you one step at a time.
Hi, I ‘m Melanie
Your guide and companion on your journey back home.
I am a somatic and ketamine-assisted psychotherapist. How did I arrive here and what has inspired me to do this work? My desire to guide others on their voyage of healing and self-discovery was born out of my own experience with pain and struggle. It is in the depths of my own darkness, where I encountered not only my deepest wounding, but also my gifts and offerings. Through the remembering of my own humanity, that lives deep in my body, I have more trust in my capacity to dance through the waves that life often brings. I also understand, in my own way, the transformative power of therapy and the beacon of hope it can become for those navigating the shadows of their bodies and minds.
I am committed to the quest for knowledge and healing with my heart, humility, and ground at the center. Through my years of study, training, and introspection, I have embraced an integrative approach to therapeutic work that centers the body, mind, and spirit, as well as the human to human therapeutic relationship.
I am here to support you to find your inner wisdom that can be born from personal struggles. The only way out of the pain is through, and I have found that the healing power of a relationship can be the medicine that catalyzes our transformation.
What I Bring
to our work together in service of your wellness and growth
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy emphasizes the role of the body and the nervous system in the healing process. Emotional and psychological experiences influence our physiology, & sensations, breath, and movement can be access points to restoring wellness. Since trauma is stored in the body, somatic therapy is also uniquely positioned to support recovery from trauma.
Ketamine-assisted Therapy
Ketamine therapy incorporates Ketamine into therapeutic sessions. This medicine supports our nervous systems to relax our defenses so the roots of emotional charge and pain can be released from the body. Sessions are two to three hours in length and a series is typically encouraged.
Dance Therapy
Dance/movement therapy emphasizes healing through expressive movement. Movement in dance therapy includes both micro and macro movements, such as posture, gesture, as well full-bodied movement. Dance therapy is a creative arts therapeutic modality that supports the body-mind connection and increases a range of creative expression.
EMDR
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a therapeutic approach that targets specific memories to support processing of trauma. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation, which involves the therapist guiding the client’s eye movement back and forth or rhythmic tapping, to support emotional processing.
Ceremony & Ritual
In my work with clients, I view therapy as a liminal space, a space outside the mundane of everyday life, where transformation or healing experiences can happen. Ritual and intentional ceremony, of which we often lack in our current culture, can be a grounding force in the therapeutic journey. From making a cup of tea at the start of every session, to co-creating a grief ceremony as a way to access emotional processing, ritual and ceremony get woven into sessions in a way that is reflective of who you are. I am inspired by my own Irish, Celtic lineage when it comes to the creation of ritual and ceremony.
What I Offer
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$160/hour
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$160/hour
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$160/hour*
*Ketamine sessions are typically 2-3 hours in length and a series is typically encouraged.
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$160/hour
