You’ve built a life you can manage.

Let’s make it one you can enjoy.

Therapy for women who are tired of overthinking, carrying everyone else, and being so hard on themselves.

You deserve the care
you give everyone else.

You can keep everything running and still feel exhausted, disconnected, or unsure of what you need. Maybe you’ve spent so long being dependable that asking for support feels uncomfortable.

Here, you have room to set down what you’re carrying. Together, we’ll work on the patterns that leave you overthinking, saying yes when you mean no, and treating yourself more harshly than anyone else.

You can learn to be on your own side.

Teal gate in sunlight garden.

Time to work on
what keeps you stuck.

You may understand where your patterns come from and still find yourself repeating them. When a weekly session feels like it barely gives you time to get started, an intensive offers more room.

With extended time together, we can use EMDR and other approaches tailored to you to work with painful experiences, deeply held beliefs, and familiar reactions. We’ll move at a pace that allows for preparation, processing, and rest.

I’ve worked hard to build a life that feels like mine.

Melanie Taylor, LPC-S, smiling while seated in a yellow chair holding copy of You Are For True.

I know what it takes to sit down with yourself and ask: Who am I? What do I want? What needs to change?

I’ve done that work, and I’m still doing it. It can be a beautiful, brutal process to untangle who you are from everything you learned to be.

That experience shapes how I show up as your therapist: with tenderness, honesty, and respect for what this asks of you.

The story behind the work.

I’ve lived some of what I now help women work through. In You Are For True, I share my story. In Sacred Lessons from True, I explore what that journey taught me about worth, boundaries, grief, and learning to be on my own side.

If you’re finding your way back to yourself, these books can keep you company along the way.

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