Melanie is a warm, enthusiastic, dedicated, and empathic person currently completing the Master of Divinity in Clinical Counselling program with Tyndale Seminary. She has experience providing mental health support and crisis intervention in clinical, faith-based, and non-profit settings, where she has provided services to a variety of populations, including survivors of human trafficking, domestic assault, and homelessness. When she is not interning at LifeCare Centres, she works as a Care Coordinator, providing support and case management for seniors and their family members, and volunteers as a Crisis Responder with Kids Help Phone.
Melanie gravitates towards working from a person-centred, strength-based, and solution-focused approach using a trauma-informed lens. She integrates therapeutic modalities such as Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems Theory, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and she also offers Christian Counselling. Melanie enjoys providing therapeutic support to kids and youth, adults, and couples and has a particular interest in a range of issues, including trauma, addiction, mood and behavioural disorders, low-self esteem, life transitions, infertility, and relational conflict. She is passionate about cultivating trusting therapeutic relationships that foster healing, growth, and empowerment with the clients she serves at LifeCare.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their dog and can often be found at the gym or hiking outdoors.