Melanie Goetz, LMFT, MA

Have you spent years holding it all together emotionally and in relationships, and it's obvious to you that the body keeps the score? I work with individuals and couples to restore your mind-body connection, reconnect you with your Inner Child, and help you build safe, meaningful relationships through EMDR, Attachment Theory, Parts Work, and Somatic Therapy.

My therapy practice is an integrative approach. One of my trainings referenced "the house we operate from" as therapists. So, if you will allow me to expand on this metaphor, I'd like to walk you through the structure and rooms within.

The foundation of most of my work is based in Attachment Theory. Trauma-informed neuropsychology (including Polyvagal Theory) directs the flow of our movement from one space to another. I lean into EMDR to organize resourcing and processing any necessary trauma work. However, in both the resourcing and processing, we may likely pull from parts work (including Internal Family Systems) and somatic therapy (including Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experiencing). My job as the therapist is primarily to watch the ebbs and flows of how your brain and body are digesting and making sense of the experience you share, and, to ensure we're never pushing too much too fast at any moment. We'll make sure that we don't leave all the doors open at once, and, that you have a felt-sense of empowered safety to open and close each room as it feels appropriate and necessary to you. My couples work is quite similar through a PACT perspective which focuses on your shared experience of safety and knowness with one another.

I want to partner with you in celebrating the victories of increasing capacity to be with your own experience with loving presence, one inch at a time. We start this by spending the first sessions really getting to know your world and exploring your current support beams. I'll lead you through building more supporting structures as well through imagery, the use of your tangible space around you, and new grounding practices. It will be my honor to witness your story be reshaped to help free you towards a life you are more excited about in your near future.