Melissa Grogan,
LPC Associate

Professional

I’d like to walk beside you as you find the part of you that is guiding you towards transformation. I’ll work with you to help you relate differently to the parts of yourself that helped you manage difficult environments and situations where trauma, neglect, and abandonment occurred but are now keeping you stuck in patterns that bring anxiety or depression. I’ll work with you to integrate your inner resilience so that it can become a trusted resource from which to move.

When we transcend outdated beliefs rooted in a lack of self-trust or self-love we begin to relate to life more fully. An internal resource of peace and freedom is accessible.

For more than 25 years I've worked as a Vocal Empowerment Coach and former voice and somatic movement professor. Voice means the sound that you hear when people speak and it means identity. Those two definitions are interlinked. I help people find their voice and express themselves in a way that can be heard and received. I also help them be open to hearing others. I enjoy exploring the work as a part of psychotherapy.

I’m trained in the 8 limbs of yoga, meditation facilitation, somatic experiencing, presence, and relationship dynamics. I’m a trained energy worker, as well, and can support clients in doing the same for themselves. We are complex beings and a therapy approach that touches all the parts of us (mind, body, emotion, and spirit) allows for that complexity.

Clients of mine would describe me as trustworthy, safe, a good listener, present, empathetic, intuitive, and challenging towards growth and compassionate self-awareness.

I believe that if we can increase our ability to being fully present in the moment healing will naturally occur.

Personal
I started on a deep healing journey in my late twenties. Voice and movement classes in my graduate acting program were a significant and early influence in my personal journey. They led me to a path that has helped heal decades of anxiety, depression, and eventually regain an ability to be in healthy relationships.

I follow my bliss. I have learned how to trust life and, most of all, recognize and listen to my intuition. I do the hard work. I feel deeply. I love life and find Joy where ever I can. I light up at the beauty of nature. I am a bit of a philosopher and an intellectual – I always like to know “why” something works the way it does. This sense of open curiosity makes me a great listener.

I meditate regularly, use movement to integrate new patterns of thinking and ways of relating, have healed from relational and developmental trauma, and recognize that the most difficult moments in life are the ones that have grown me the most. I have a deep commitment to fun and I try not to take myself too seriously.

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