_Licensed in MA since 1998 and CA since 2018. Not accepting new therapy clients at this time. Openings are for holistic wellness coaching/consultations only.

Melissa has three decades of experience working in the fields of psychology and social work. Her specialities have varied across the decades, ranging from work in psychiatric hospitals, child protective services, substance abuse treatment & education, DBT for adolescents, and play therapy for children with trauma, to court investigations, educational & medical advocacy for youth involved in the Court systems and Mediation for families.

Over the last 15 years Melissa’s personal and professional journey shifted to a strong focus on holistic wellness (mind, body, soul) with an integrative medicine approach. Melissa has a foundation in Positive and Spiritual Psychology and provides a compassionate space to meet clients where they are.

As a holistic wellness practitioner, Melissa holds certifications as an Integrative Mental Health Professional, HeartMath Interventions Practitioner, Heart-Centered Clinical Hypnotherapist with Age Regression and in a non-clinical methodology of the Human Design System as a BG5 Career Design Consultant (a synergy of the Chinese iChing, Hindu Brahman Chakra System, Kabbalah Tree of Life, Eastern/Western Astrology, 64 Hexagrams & your genetic codes).

She has a virtually-based private practice and provides psychotherapy to women/moms who are seeking to rise above the stress, overwhelm, anxiety, self-doubt, stagnancy and reclaim their own inner strength and power to live authentically.

Melissa is passionate about educating, empowering and inspiring women/moms to unravel the tight weave of past conditioning and lack of true self-care. She partners with women who are ready to make a commitment to themselves, engaging in the weekly sessions, opening up for healing and establishing new daily positive practices. Women of all ages are feeling the need for compassionate support, especially those who are sensitive/empathic with a tendency to give more, think/feel more, care deeply, and have lost sight of their own needs and quality self-care as a result of tending to others’ needs. Melissa offers a safe space to be heard, understood, supported and to experience increased levels of self-awareness and wellness around mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health needs.

Melissa was led to the holistic wellness practitioner path when she was faced with challenges as a highly sensitive woman (an innate survival strategy trait - 20% in over 100 species); including infertility/loss, postpartum depression, medication sensitivities, an autoimmune condition that went under-acknowledged and misunderstood by the professionals, high toxic impact, along with other life transitions later on like divorce, navigating single parenting & homeschooling. She chose to dig deeper into understanding more about the mind, body and soul and the root causes for so many of the challenges. She committed to a path of self-discovery on multiple levels including epigenetics, functional medicine and what made her unique (genetic testing, high sensitivity trait and Human Design/manifesting generator) so she could recover her health with an integrative approach and establish self-love, acceptance and trust.

Melissa feels strongly about assisting others on their journey to reclaim their health and happiness. Her strengths include educating, empowering and inspiring others to learn more about themselves, holistic wellness, what else is possible, embracing unique qualities, building resiliency, increasing self-love and acceptance, and redefining dreams/visions. Melissa intends to inspire you to reframe your unique journey, implement lifestyle changes, and discover a connection and faith within yourself.

Are you ready to make a commitment to yourself, to share your thoughts, feelings, and dreams while moving into a greater sense of self-love, acceptance, authenticity & trust?

Specialties: Sensitive/Empathic Women, Anxiety, Depression, Parenting, Relationships, Spirituality, Women’s Mental Health

Additional Coaching/Consultative Services: BG5 Career Design/Human Design for Wellness, Highly Sensitive/Empathic Women, and Melissa’s unique methodology through a Holistic Wellness Coaching Program.

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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