Working with Melina has fundamentally shifted my life...
Working with Melina has fundamentally shifted my life. I feel safer and more confident every day in all situations - I constantly catch myself doing things differently, with more confidence, and don’t even recognize myself. Melina’s ability to hold space and guide people is incredible - they are so attuned, wise, and skillful. If you like being stuck in old patterns of operating, do not work with Melina.
If you want to unravel old patterns and be free, work with Melina. ~ Julian C, Artist
Melina is an exquisite guide for people wishing to transform their own lives...
Melina is someone I know and worked with who has dealt with real challenges and done the hard work to allow them to transform her life. She has emerged as a powerful human being, and is an exquisite guide for people wishing to transform their own lives. You will not regret working with this being! ~ Raven Wells, Inherent Wisdom Coaching, LMFT
Melina creates a beautiful container of acceptance and love. I feel safe and she trusts me too...
Working with Melina has been life changing for me. Before working with her I was hurting and I just stressed out all the time. I began to do little things here and there trying to support myself in this area. Then I got to a point where I felt I needed more guidance and Melina popped into my inbox offering Somatic Experiencing and I immediately emailed her. Honestly I’m not even sure how to articulate how much these sessions with her have helped me. I have begun learning and listening to the language of my body which feels SO good. I have learned what I do when I’m overwhelmed or stressed and that I have so many more resources available to me to support me I just didn’t even realize it. I feel now that I have more space to just be to breathe, to take things in. I am a very sensitive person. Before I would just feel overwhelmed all the time with everything and that would then result in feeling super fatigued, inflamed, irritable, craving sugar, and just generally feeling stressed all the time. I am finally beginning to have a very different experience and relationship with myself, those around me, and even the world. I had no idea that what I feel and experience now was even possible. I have learned to be much kinder and compassionate towards myself. I used to judge myself a lot, especially in the ways I would cope with the stress. Melina has helped me look at different perspectives around this and I just feel overall more accepting of who I am as a human being and as a soul. Melina creates a beautiful container of acceptance and love. I feel safe and she trusts me too. Nothing I say or do is “wrong”. It’s always, do more of that, express more of that, be more of that, be more you.' ~ Stormie S, Hypnontherapist
Melina holds deeply compassionate, loving and yet stabilizing/ structured space...
I worked with Melina through her Wisdom Somatics program for a full year. The impact on my life has been huge, although sometimes it's hard to describe because it's also been so subtle. It's almost like the soil I stand on has shifted, and therefore, the way my life grows has shifted! Or like tapping into an underground wellspring that is always there even if I sometimes forget. I've become deeply aware of my nervous system in ways that will affect me for the rest of my life. I feel the ground of myself in new ways, if that makes sense, and I trust myself on deeper levels. Melina is very skilled at staying rooted in the work-- continuously shifting me back to the wisdom of my body and giving me permission again and again to let my system settle and organically recharge or renew. Melina holds deeply compassionate, loving and yet stabilizing/ structured space. The work itself is regulating-- allowing me greater freedom in the fluctuations of my system and my own capacity to give myself what I need. I am deeply grateful to Melina and this time of Somatic Wisdom work. ~ Erin D, MEd, MA, MAMC