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Melina's life has been dedicated to healing for over 17 years.  

Throughout this time they have helped themselves and helped hundreds of people:

- find safety and wholeness within their body
- access understanding, compassion and grace for the nuanced and complex experience of being human
- resolve stuck trauma

- find deeper meaning, purpose and empowerment within their lives 
- complete ongoing unhealthy patterns 
- heal from chronic illness and injury
- integrate and embody psychedelic and spiritual experiences 
- resolve shame around sexuality, gender and money
- restore spiritual connection 
- heal from perfectionism 
- repair relational attachment 
- overcome PTSD and thrive with CPTSD
- set healthy and affirmative boundaries with self and others 
- re-establish aliveness, trust, and secure attachment to self and others

Education

  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner - Completed the professional 3 year program at The Trauma Institute - including 8 years of individual mentorship.
     

  • Women's Embodiment and Circle Teacher and Facilitator - 10 year training at Awakening Women Institute
     

  • 10 year Mentorship / Apprenticeship under Chameli Ardagh, Founder of Awakening Women Institute
     

  • 7 year mentorship, Trauma Education and personal Trauma Therapy - Inherent Wisdom  Coaching, Raven Wells
     

  • Entheogenic Ceremonial Facilitator - TATS Institue, Rev. M, Ward 
     

  • Woking with Complex Trauma  - Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
     

  • Neuroplasticity, Re-wiring the Brain after Trauma- Dr. Diane Poole Heller 
     

  • ​Overcoming PTSD and Toxic Shame - Dr. Joshua Sylvae (SEP, LMFT, PhD) 
     

  • Wired for Love (Attachment Training) - PACT Institute, Stan Tatkin
     

  • Money & the Nervous System -  Kimberly Anne Johnson
     

  • Safer, Embodied Support For Psychedelic Therapies - Joshua Sylvae, Ph.D. and Ian Macnaughton, Ph.D.
     

  • Cultural Somatics - Resmaa Manakem
     

  • Women's Embodiment and Empowerment Education - This Earth Gathering (UK 2011-2015)
     

  • Extensive Initiation and Ceremonial Ritual work - India, Europe and Australia under various teachers, plant medicines and psychedelics

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