Get to Know the Facilitator

Melissa has been a guide on the path of healing for over 20 years, holding space in a variety of settings where  transformation takes root.  As a licensed mental health therapist, she has worked with both teens and adults in multiple environments, bringing compassion and insight to those navigating mental and emotional challenges.

Over the past decade, Melissa has also been on a profound spiritual journey that began during a retreat in Sedona, Arizona. There she began discovering alternative healing and ancient traditions that expanded her understanding of healing beyond the boundaries of traditional psychology.  She has integrated these teaching of the mind, body, and soul to facilitate deeper healing. Melissa has also worked on opening up her gifts from the divine to be able to channel and muscle test for insights to expand healing. 

Melissa is also the proud parent of a wonderful daughter, whom she adopted through DCFS at the age of 12. This deeply personal journey has given her firsthand insight into the complex layers of trauma in the foster care and adoption systems—both for children and parents—and has further deepened her capacity to hold space with empathy and understanding.

Passionate about adventure and lifelong learning, Melissa has set a personal goal to travel to all 50 states.  Melissa also spent time this past year in Bali, Hawaii, and California seeking to broaden her horizons and experience the wonders the world has to offer.

For the past 20  years, Melissa has been devoted to a path of deep exploration and rigorous training, across a wide range of healing modalities—each one chosen to cultivate the most expansive and illuminating possibilities for her clients' growth and transformation. 

Below are her areas of training:

MIND: 

• Licensed Therapist (Certified Mental Health Counselor, Masters of Science)
• DBT - Advanced Certified 
• TBRI Practioner 
• IFS/Parts Informed and Trained
• Sand Tray Certified 

BODY: 

• Brain Spotting Practioner 
• Aura Institue - Certified Somatic Practioner
• STAM Trauma Informed Breathwork Practioner

SPIRIT: 

•  Sacred Perspective Healing Practioner (Trained by Hollie Hope)
• Reiki Master Practioner ICRT 
• Human Design

VIBRATION:

• Certified Sound Healer 

MEDICINE: 

           * Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Practioner - Completed a Year  Long IPI Certification Program with a In Person    Practium in Boulder, Colorado