Melodie Winter(She/Her/Hers)

Melodie works primarily with the family and friends of folks struggling with substance use. There are lots of therapists who help clients navigate addiction and recovery. Melodie works with their partners, their children, or their friends: the people who are often left to manage the wreckage that comes with substance abuse. The people who love a person battling addiction and who are also suffering themselves. The people who don't know if they're helping or enabling, who aren't sure if they want to stay or if they need to go. The people who feel like they can't take it anymore.

Melodie specializes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR and ACT therapies are structured, targeted and they deliver. Melodie's approach to addiction is grounded in CRAFT: Community Reinforcement And Family Training - an evidence-based intervention that helps family and friends develop effective strategies to help their loved one who is struggling with addiction and also to feel better about themselves.

Counseling is not Melodie's first career (nor her second), and she brings with her a wealth of experience, having worked with many different people, in many different places. Melodie comes by her expertise honestly - she's walked the walk and done the hard work of change.

Melodie also works with clients experiencing anxiety, including social anxiety, loneliness and social isolation; imposter syndrome and burnout; self-esteem concerns; health difficulties like infertility and postpartum depression; and lack of vitality and purpose.