Hello — I'm Mel.

I’m a clinical psychologist-in-training, energy worker, intuitive, scientist, and somatic practitioner. My practice is deeply political, rooted in the belief that healing does not happen in a vacuum, and that much of what we call “mental illness” is often a response to surviving systemic oppression.

Somatic therapy is not just a modality—it’s a reclamation. It’s a way back to the body and the wisdom stripped from us by systems designed to disconnect, pathologize, and erase. I came to this work as a multiracial, multinational woman with my own lived experiences of immigration, cultural assimilation, and systemic racism in the U.S. These experiences have shaped how I see, how I hold space, and how I work.

A Decolonial Approach to Healing

This practice is grounded in the understanding that colonization, patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism are not just historical concepts—they live in our nervous systems. They manifest as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, disconnection, numbness, and shame.

What the dominant mental health system often calls "pathology" is, in many cases, a natural response to surviving violence, interpersonal, institutional, and generational harm. Western psychology has long ignored the political roots of our suffering. It has pathologized the individual while protecting the systems that harm us.

Here, I do things differently.

This Is a Space For:

• Black and brown bodies

• All gender identities and expressions

• All sexual orientations

• All body types, sizes, and abilities

• Immigrants, refugees, diasporic communities

• Anyone who has felt "othered" in mainstream therapy spaces

This is a space of reclamation. Of slowness. Of curiosity. Of coming home to your body in a world that often demands you disconnect from it.

Why Somatic Therapy?

Our bodies carry the legacy of everything we’ve been through—not just in our individual lifetimes but across generations. Somatic therapy helps us tune in to the nervous system, release what’s been held, and rebuild safety and connection from the inside out.

It’s especially powerful for those navigating the wounds of systemic racism, displacement, gendered violence, and cultural disconnection. As someone who walks these paths myself, I hold space with deep reverence and lived understanding.