What our clients have to say..
“I am forever grateful to Mela for saving my life. After experiencing a terrible breakdown of my mental faculties, and going to a facility which made me worse not better, I found what I had been looking all along in Mela. Her kindness, compassion, knowledge and love for what she does comes out the minute you meet her. To date I have seen many practitioners and not one of them went as in depth, or showed the care that she did to my treatment. My hope is that anyone who is struggling with mental health concerns or recent diagnosis can work with her to find relief and learn to love themselves again.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the gifts you helped me realized and for being the teacher and healer that I needed”DE
“Melania has a magical blend of being an intuitive healer and an excellent therapist.
Before my first session, I was afraid of truly ‘letting go,’ but she immediately put me at ease. Her presence is deeply calming, and her trauma-informed approach gave me confidence that this would be different from past therapy experiences.
The group therapy session was well-structured, focusing on somatic awareness, breathing techniques, and nervous system regulation to help us feel safe and connected. I was able to see a new perspective without my usual filters, and months later, the changes still resonate with me.
Her bodywork was incredibly attuned to my experience, guiding me without pushing, and her post-journey integration calls helped solidify the insights I gained. I’ve since booked one-on-one sessions for deeper healing, and each has been transformative. Melania’s magic lies in her ability to create a space of safety and support, allowing true healing to unfold.
I wish more people knew about her work – it’s been life-changing for me.”
NB
“I first saw Mela in 2018 when I needed a different approach to tackle my mental health issues. Since then, I have been seeing her as I continue my healing journey, particularly to address the accumulated effects of complex trauma. From our very first meeting, Mela created a space where I felt both safe and prioritised. I chose her for her professional background and extensive experience with therapy, as well as for her deeply compassionate approach.
Mela integrates a diverse array of healing practices, including body-centred awareness, and trauma-informed care, all woven into her unique approach to embodied parts work and analytical frameworks. She guided me to connect present moment experiences with my childhood traumas, focusing on helping me reconnect with wounded younger selves, embodying them and giving them a voice. By creating a strong and safe container, Mela allowed these parts to feel safe enough to surface. Additionally, Mela blends spirituality and her own intuition into her practice, creating a holistic healing environment.
She supported me in preparing for my first healing session, making me feel that everything was welcome. This trust allowed me to dive deeply into my experience. After our few healing journeys sessions, I felt I had processed and healed a significant part of my early childhood trauma. Mela encouraged me to be curious about what was being presented to me, and her professional guidance ensured the best outcome for each session.
Mela was incredibly supportive during the integration sessions, helping me frame my experiences so I could integrate the teachings and healing into my daily life. She is genuinely invested in my healing process and has been an important part of my journey. Before I started working with Mela, I had been diagnosed with traits of Borderline Personality Disorder. After several sessions, I no longer met the criteria for BPD. I have gained insights into my past, processed childhood emotional and sexual abuse, and am now more in touch with my emotions.
I highly recommend Mela to anyone seeking to heal and live a more grounded and fuller life”.
RL
“I felt an immediate comfort level with Mela when we first met and appreciated the time and thoughtful attention she took to understand where I was before our initial individual therapy session. Since then, I have met with her three times within group therapy sessions, and each experience has been wonderful. Her great care and intuitive sense of incorporating different elements, such as sound healing, bodywork, movement, breathing exercises, affirmations, oracle cards, connection exercises, and much more, created a seamless and transformative flow throughout our sessions. I wholeheartedly recommend Mela as an experienced and compassionate guide to anyone who feels drawn to this sort of journey.“
PS
“In the three years since I’ve known Mela, I have trusted her to guide my healing journeys repeatedly. I have participated in solo sessions, group sessions, and couples sessions under her watchful eye. In every single session, Mela’s extensive experience and knowledge have made her skilled at knowing what I needed moment by moment. Her hands on, bodywork approch, for example, consistently comes at exactly the right time.
She provides the structure necessary to create a ceremonial space and has offered many suggestions during a session that worked out well and added to my experience. However, she is always very receptive to my own ideas as well. She has been available for conversation, eye gazing, or dancing with me in the moments I felt called to those things.
Mela is educated, skilled, thorough, caring, and attentive. Like the rest of us, she is not perfect and still has work of her own to do. But she is self-aware and has been willing at times to vulnerably share of herself. For me, this has greatly increased my trust in her: she’s human too. When she is in the role of a guide, it seems to me that she is living her purpose. She is confident and entirely focused on the needs of her clients.
She is also consistently encouraging. For example, many times she has heard a self-criticism of mine and, after hearing me out, has pointed out how this quality has been helpful to me in the past, reminded me to be gentle with myself, or told me of the positive changes she has seen in me.
I highly recommend Mela. There are books, massage therapists, and restaurants that we recommend to each other, but what could be more important than feeling safe and attended to when navigating the uncharted depths of the mind? We are struggling to free ourselves from our pasts and from our unwanted or feared futures as we move from caterpillar to butterfly. For me, Mela is a trusted and valued helper on the journey.“
BH
“I met Mela in 2019 as a client in her private practice. When she announced in 2020 that she was launching Level I Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Training, with a focus on Screening, Assessment, Preparation, and Integration through Chiron Learning Academy, I jumped at the opportunity to learn from her. Mela is a deeply committed healer who understands trauma inside and out. Her training method is based on solid clinical knowledge and rooted in experience, with a profound understanding of human behaviour and in non-ordinary states of consciousness. She combines deep shadow work, various healing touch modalities, and spirituality in a highly informed synthesis. If you want to take the next step in your psychedelic explorations, look no further than Chiron. I applaud her for building a real, durable community in these challenging times. Let’s go Chiron!”
BF