Melanie Otto

Melanie Otto is a warm, enthusiastic, dedicated, and empathic person who completed her 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 with organizations such as Kids Help Phone, Durham Rape Crisis Centre, and SafeHope Home.
Melanie gravitates towards working from a person-centred, strength-based, and trauma-informed approach. She integrates therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Family Systems, Attachment-Based Therapy, Play Therapy, Mindfulness, 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, stress, 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.