Melanie is a pleasure-focused sex therapist and educator. One of the most exciting parts of her job is permission giving. One of Melanie’s favorite parts of being a sex therapist is often being the first person to ever pose questions about a client’s sexuality and provide a safe space to explore parts of themselves they may never have been given the opportunity to connect with.

Melanie loves working with individuals and couples on communication skills, intimacy building, exploring desire, body-acceptance and movement, and life-transitions. Along with sex therapy, Melanie’s expertise is in anxiety, depression, systemic issues and current events, healing childhood wounds, toxic masculinity, and exploring the shame that comes with simply being human.

Melanie is a relational therapist and she utilizes Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work, Gottman Method techniques, somatic work, psychoeducation and humor to help deepen her relationship with clients. Melanie works from a systems lens and believes therapy can help heal wounds but cannot heal oppression or take down capitalism and the patriarchy.