About Me

Melissa is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) with over a two hundred hours of advanced training in the use somatic touch to support trauma resolution in the body. Melissa holds a Master's degree in Social Work, a Master's in speech-language pathology, is a Certified Professional Life Coach and a Certified Yoga Therapist.  As a clinician, Melissa has combined her years of experience and developed a specialty to support the healing of early childhood/developmental trauma, medical trauma, and shock trauma.
She combines her experience and practice with a trauma-informed approach that focuses on the blueprint of our system. The intention of somatic work is to provide individuals with the inherent wisdom of the body.  Stress, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and relational issues exist within the mind and the body.   Somatic experiencing, somatic touch and somatic regulation  and resilience offer the opportunity to explore the messages carried in the body and support choices that create more ease allowing the freedom to live a fuller version of ourselves.