Jackie Meltz, PsyD, LCSW

I offer PSIP where we focus on what is happening both in your body and in our relationship. We closely and precisely track your nervous system, in a moment to moment way, with the aim of building more and more capacity. Ultimately the goal is to help you become more regulated and more connected to yourself (feelings, bodily sensations) and others. After numerous years of doing therapy, I have found these approaches (somatic and relational) to be the most effective approaches for accessing and healing deeper layers of traumatic material inside of us. I help you identify areas where there is stuck energy in your system and support it moving through and being released. Most often the energy gets stuck in our nervous system because we became overwhelmed at the time of the trauma(s) and couldn't digest the experience. And we get overwhelmed often because we were alone, too young to help ourselves and with no one else to help us understand and process the trauma. Also we develop coping strategies that saved us back then, but now tend to get in the way of deeper healing occurring.

My focus is on creating a safe space for you, first and foremost. Meaning listening closely, attuning to what's not being said, noticing non-verbal cues and observing your bodily reactions, and understanding, in a deep way, the unique person that you are. Your unique relational needs, your comfort level with closeness with me, and the ways in which you/your system is very creatively trying to help you heal. Each and every one of our systems has an innate healing intelligence; when we can get out of it's way and let it lead, healing happens!