Relief & resolution of single events and complex trauma utilizing EMDR.
Both the EFT and PACT approaches can help Couples repair the bonds of partnership. Melissa specializes in supporting Couples experiencing Infidelity and Betrayal.
Melissa offers Individual and Group Counseling using an integrative model that can include Carnes' 30 Task Model.
I offer both evidence based and non-evidence based approaches to support your healing journey:
EMDR, Energy Psychology, Polyvagal and Somatic approaches can offer a great deal of relief and resolution, especially when combined to treat the complex trauma many clients have experienced. I believe our bodies have a story to tell and through the therapist ~ client connection, those stories can be shared, held and brought to a new understanding in support of wholeness and gratitude.
Everyone wants to be seen, heard and valued. My experience and training as an Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT) and Psychobiological Approach Couple Therapist (PACT) allows me to provide marriage counseling through a humanistic lens, recognizing each individual within the partnership as an expert in the process occurring between them.
I'm specifically trained as a Certified Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma Therapist through IITAP and APSATS. This makes my professional focus working with individuals, partners and couples experiencing challenges due to compulsive sexual behaviors and the betrayal trauma associated with those behaviors.
My experience, training and passion is for working with adults who experience challenges due to traumatic experiences, over a lifetime. that have led them to feeling, thinking and behaving in ways that have become counterproductive.
These experiences may result in symptoms of anxiety, depression, substance use and/or behavioral addiction (such as sex, porn, eating, working, exercise, spending, or gambling). Through integrative counseling and therapies including the AIP Model of EMDR, Somatic Embodiment and Parts Work approaches along with Attachment and Neurodevelopment Theories, my goal for treatment is to help each of my clients learn to emotionally regulate themselves while learning the skills necessary to be more functional, and identify and live in alignment with their values in better connection with trusted others.
Professionally, those letters behind my name mean that I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, Supervisor, Associate Sex Addiction Therapist, a Certified Partners Specialist - Candidate, a Registered Yoga Teacher and Trauma Releasing Exercise Facilitator - in training.
I'm also trained in EMDR, S.E. and EFT
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