Melanie Goetz, LMFT, MA
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Carlsbad, CA
Online & In-Person
Free initial consultation
About me
I am an individual and couples therapist passionate about supporting clients in rewriting their embodied relational stories that are no longer serving their current relationships.
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 moving 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.
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.
License
License(s)
Professional certifications
Professional associations
Education
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Fees and insurance
Cost per session
$ - $150Sliding scale
YesAccepted payment methods
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Credit Card
Accepted credit cards
- Visa
- Mastercard
- American Express
- Discover
Specialties and clinical interests
- Anxiety
- Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Family Conflict
- Pre-Marital & Marital Issues
- Relationships
- Self-Esteem
- Stress/Stress Management
- Trauma & PTSD
Therapy types
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- PACT
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
Community specialties
- Trauma Survivors
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Licensed to see clients in
Years in practice
Service types
- Therapy / Counseling
Types of clients
- Adults (18+)
- Individuals
- Couples
Languages
- English
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