Melina Rodriguez

Melina’s 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. Nontraditional creative outlets she may incorporate, depending on your individual needs, include nature walks, art, music, writing, mindfulness, and more. Her specialties include working through shame/guilt, empowerment and self-worth, anxiety and depression, stress reduction, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills—all through a trauma-informed and multicultural lens. Melina does individual and couples therapy in both English and Spanish.

You are free to be YOU. You will find comfort in the shared human experience and create space for the possibilities of growth far beyond the walls you previously built to protect yourself but which are no longer serving you. Melina strives to create a space of non-judgment, radical acceptance, and unconditional positive regard to meet you wherever you are and facilitate your personal journey. Together, you can rewrite the stories you may have been living in, pre-defined by shame, trauma, culture, stigma, and external expectations. You will navigate your internal emotional system in a way that feels safe and is based on self-acceptance.

Melina’s primary approach is Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed to explore the different parts of you that influence your daily life and work towards internal harmony. Mindfulness, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), art therapy, somatic therapy, and narrative therapy are integrated. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is available.

Her specialties include trauma, shame and guilt, empowerment and self-worth, anxiety and depression, relationship issues and separation mediation, psychedelic integration, and sex therapy support—all approached through a trauma-informed and multicultural lens.