Therapy for Highly Sensitive Therapists
You feel the fault lines in our quaking world.
Highly sensitive therapists are on the frontlines and are the canaries in the collective coal mine — sensing the smoke before anyone else admits the fire.
You need another highly sensitive therapist who gets it: someone who cares deeply about injustice, uses a dark sense of humor as a clinical intervention, and will center your intuition as the guiding light of therapy.
“I was lucky enough to have an IFS and Brainspotting session with Melissa and was blown away by her warm, skillful, and completely authentic presence. Her energy made me feel safe to open up, even in our very first meeting, and I was able to uncover things I hadn’t accessed before. So many insights in a single session! I can’t wait for my next one.” ~ Dr. Camarano, PsyD
You’re a gifted healer, and it started long before grad school.
You were the emotional caretaker in your family, guiding others with your perception and insight.
You learned how to navigate emotional chaos to survive your family system’s eruptions. Now, clients feel safe with you because they sense that you have been to hell and back, and they feel reassured by your steadiness and wisdom. But here you are at midlife, carrying a lifetime of other people’s pain. You’re lonely from the countless hours giving to others and not equally receiving, and exhausted from always having to be the strong one. You’re longing for a space where you can express your needs and be heard, stop pleasing others and still be valued, and release your hypervigilance and still be held. Therapy with me is where you can practice being cared for without having to take care of someone else.
You want a space where the mystical and the clinical can co-exist.
Your intuition is the boss here. I will follow you wherever you are called, and we can weave in the spirit realm, astrology, reiki and tarot as desired. These are valid forms of knowing that can assist evidence-based therapies like IFS, EMDR and Brainspotting to help you heal in the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic layers. You will be invited into a liminal space where you learn to trust the process of falling apart and coming back together again, releasing conditioning that keeps you separate from your soul and your inner child.
You became a wise crone too young.
Not by age, but by necessity. But midlife is asking something different of you:
to return to your pleasure,
your creativity,
your convictions,
your right to soften and still be powerful.
You’re ready to stop being everyone’s emotional caretaker. You’re ready to belong to yourself again.
Therapy with me is where you let your old roles shed, and where you learn to let your intuition take the lead. Your sensitivity is not just a tool to help others heal, but a powerful gift to help you navigate life with magic and discernment. If you have been disconnected from the potency of your own truth and wisdom, it’s time to reclaim it.
