Melina Rodriguez, MA, LPC
Experience and Approach
My specialties include working through attachment issues, childhood trauma, and the impact on current relationships. Relationship issues, including betrayal. Women's empowerment and connection to their sensual self. Shame/guilt, anxiety and depression, and life transitions also welcome.
My approach to the counseling process is a blend of psychotherapy, self-exploration, and skill building through a healing relationship with honesty, genuine care, humor, and compassion. I work from a Internal Family Systems lens, incorporate EMDR where appropriate, and use mindfulness practices. I offer DBT skills, psychedelic integration therapy, sex positive and nontraditional lifestyle support- all through a trauma informed and multicultural lens.
My experience includes individuals experiencing addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, attachment issues, physical/sexual abuse. I've also worked with couples and non-traditional lifestyles.
Your treatment deserves to be individualized to your needs.
Services
Individual Counseling
For individuals wanting to truly dive deeper into the self, explore suppressed feelings/trauma, works on individual goals and growth.
Couples Counseling
For partners experiencing interrelation issues within a relationship. Often stemming from lost communication, my approach is to provide a time and place to explore the relationship and your understanding of one another's needs and wants.
Walk & Talk/Coaching
For individuals wanting a more casual setting if the idea of talk therapy creates some anxiety or fear. Weather permitting, we can meet in more casual spaces depending on your comfort level.