At GoodHub, a holistic health hub, Melissa Howie Consulting offers face-to-face counselling sessions.
Telehealth can be used to provide psychological counselling and support via various online platforms (e.g., video conferencing, phone, email, or online chat).
For individuals, Melissa specialises in providing Schema Therapy and EMDR Therapy services. Extensive research suggests that these specialties can be integrated and effective for a range of traumatic and mental health issues. Melissa also integrates Dialectical Behaviour Therapy into Schema Therapy practices.
Further to these certifications, other specialist training in Schema Therapy includes drug, alcohol and sexual addictions; eating disorders; complex trauma and dissociation; autism/ADHD; sexual offending; and personality disorders.
Melissa’s counselling services for couples and/or families cover a range of areas including intimacy, co-parenting, pre-marriage counselling, conflict coaching, step-family dynamics, separation and divorce, domestic violence, parenting plan support, and grief and loss.
For families/couples, Melissa provides Schema Therapy with emotion-focused therapy, addressing issues in which trauma responses create schema activation and mode clashing.
Melissa is trained in Gottman Couples Therapy, and previously worked in the area of family dispute resolution, assisting with education around family matters.
Melissa works with children and adolescents, utilising both Schema Therapy and EMDR Therapy as early intervention approaches, which is particularly effective in working with trauma responses.
Adopting brain–body parenting approaches, Melissa works closely with parents to identify interventions that are suitable for addressing and improving a range of issues for children.
Melissa strongly believes in incorporating co-regulation parenting principles and emotion-coaching, including parents into the treatment process as required.
Diagnoses can include: bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, obsessive behaviour, post-natal depression, and social anxiety.
Melissa’s therapies include Schema Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, AutPlay Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy.
Take a look below for more information about Schema Therapy, EMDR Therapy and AutPlay Therapy.
As an advanced individual certified schema therapist/supervisor, Melissa focuses on healing the origins of your schemas to reduce unhelpful ways of coping and help you find improved potential. Schema therapy is useful for issues such as eating disorders, personality disorders, childhood traumas, addictions, unwanted sexual behaviours, relationship concerns, conflicted couples, workplace performance, and children with fears and low self-esteem.
Melissa specialises in eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy — used to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions that are linked to traumatic or adverse life events.
As a certified AutPlay therapist, Melissa is trained in child-centred play therapy. The accredited AutPlay program has been developed for autistic children and adolescents, and is suitable for developing functional capacity skills in connection, social navigation, and emotion regulation. The program is neuro-divergent friendly, resisting practices promoting ableism.
