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Spiral Mind Psychotherapy

Your Journey to Wholeness Begins Here

Healing is a journey, not a destination, and every step in the spiral brings you closer to your true self.

Therapy in Ohio for Complex PTSD and Emotional Neglect

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Hello, I’m Melissa, an integrative psychotherapist. Through the transformative metaphor of the spiral, I help individuals navigate their way from pain to peace, discovering their true selves along the way.

I am dedicated to helping individuals heal from Complex Trauma (CPTSD) and Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) using a blend of traditional and holistic approaches to guide them toward mental well-being and personal growth. I am neurodivergent-informed as well as Sensory Processing Sensitivity/Highly Sensitive Person-informed.

My practice is a safe, supportive space for people who struggle with overthinking, feeling like they fit in, and finding true purpose in their lives to explore their feelings, past wounds, current thoughts and existential questions.

My focus is on helping to uncover the inner authenticity and self-acceptance that I believe is the foundation of true and lasting healing.

Let’s explore the spiral together and heal the wounds of your childhood.

MY THERAPY PROCESS

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    UNDERSTAND

    It all starts by making sense of your history and understanding how the things that happened then affect the person you are today.

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    TRUST

    Next, we work on growing trust of your understandings, experiences and intuitions, both past and present, and we also develop skills to build confidence and self-worth.

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    HONOR

    And finally, with the knowledge and confidence you have gained you can let go of the painful connection to your past and move into the period of life you’ve been wanting — happiness, joy and fulfillment!

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    Although looking at the past, as it relates to the current version of YOU, is the foundation of my therapy approach, I understand the ultimate goal is always to look at immediate ways of improving your mood, your behavior and your life.

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INSPIRATION

  • "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

    — Maya Angelou

  • "It's never too late to be what you might have been."

    — George Eliot

  • “Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

    — Carl Jung

  • "The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

    — Carl Jung

  • "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

    — Thomas A. Edison

  • "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

    — George Bernard Shaw

  • "There's a power in words. There's power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified."

    — Sinead O’Connor

  • "Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

    — Criss Jami

  • "To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

    — Eckart Tolle

  • "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity."

    — Thomas J. Watson

  • "I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years."

    — Haruki Murakami

  • "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

    — Aristotle

  • "[A person's] greatness lies in [their] power of thought."

    — Blaise Pascal

  • "In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

    — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

    — David Hume

  • "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

    — F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • "Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."

    — Thoreau

  • ""To find yourself, think for yourself."

    — Socrates

  • "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

    — Albert Einstein

  • "The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

    — Christoper Hitchens

  • "We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable,' thinking stops and action becomes mindless."

    — J. William Fulbright

  • "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

    — Marie Curie

  • "Obstacles, of course are developmentally necessary: they teach [people] strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience, and resourcefulness."

    — Naomi Wolf

  • "We will fail when we fail to try."

    — Rosa Parks

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