Olá queridos,

I’m Melanie, a recovering over achiever and people pleaser who led a life heavily programmed to be “good” for others and seldom felt good enough for herself. Because of that, I didn’t learn who I really was until I began healing.

My path to becoming a somatic practitioner began as a little girl who carried the weight of the world on her shoulders. The weight she carried was the responsibility of being a child of immigrants, feeling shame around her ethnicity, the repercussions of having a parent with alcoholism, and the intergenerational trauma left from parents raised under religious fascism. This little girl became a young 20-something that became further emotionally fractured following a two year long abusive relationship.

What was my super-power? I became excellent at reading people. I could see that the things people would say didn’t match the light behind their eyes. I could see how some people wore a mask to hide things that they didn’t want others to see. And I could see unconscious patterns and read energy, I could anticipate what was going to happen next.

My intuition was my trauma response.

Fast forward a decade later, after extensive trauma healing through grounded spirituality, embodiment practices, and experiential based therapies. I no longer carry the weight I once carried. I developed the tools to transform the weight into a gift of deep insight, attunement and empathy.

I offer gentle yet deeply transformational 1:1 somatic coaching sessions that help you identify & process unconscious patterns hiding in the most primitive parts of your brain and nervous system. I offer this in a way that is just a little bit at a time- to avoid emotional flooding and overwhelm. Somatic coaching creates space for ease and joy, almost like opening a window to allow fresh breeze and sunshine into your body and soul.

My approach is informed by a mix of formal and informal training in the following well-respected therapeutic modalities: Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, and Coherence Therapy.

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