Hello there. I am a clinical psychologist licensed in California and Massachusetts. I encourage you to give yourself credit for making this difficult first step in seeking help and for prioritizing your mental health. I hope you acknowledge these wins. I enjoy serving individuals with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Many of my clients grew up with family dysfunction or have experienced other adverse childhood events. I enjoy helping clients work through issues that stem from these experiences.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, I will introduce myself and my approach to therapy. I will encourage you to share what has led you to therapy and what you are hoping to gain from our time together. I will ask you questions about your clinical history and your life experiences to understand who you are, what you value, and what your unique therapy needs and preferences may be. This will help us determine a collaborative plan for how we can work towards achieving your unique therapy goals.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My style is client-centered, while also drawing upon insight-oriented, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, attachment-based, and internal family systems techniques, when appropriate. As a therapist, it is a privilege to accompany my clients on their healing journey and to witness their victories along the way. I help clients discover valuable insights about themselves that will lead to lasting change. I believe in my clients, and I seek to connect them with an inner wisdom that each of us has, that, if accessed, can lead to a more fulfilling life. If this sounds like a good fit for you, I look forward to connecting with you.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I welcome my clients to a gentle, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where they can openly process their feelings and concerns. If you are someone who struggles with worry, despair, guilt, shame, self-doubt, or low self-esteem, or is often critical of yourself and has trouble with relationships, I can help you understand where these issues come from and how to overcome them. I strive to help clients feel more at peace, believe in themselves, recognize their strengths and abilities, treat themselves with greater kindness and compassion, and develop more nurturing and satisfying relationships.
About Taylor Melville
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Person-centered (Rogerian)
I provide a supportive and nonjudgmental space for clients to process their feelings and concerns and to feel heard, understood, and accepted. I strive to understand my clients' unique perspective and to help clients discover solutions aligned with their individual values. I view my clients as experts in their own lives who are worthy and capable of change, regardless of their situation. My clients will gain greater clarity of who they are and what their needs are, learn to trust themselves more, and feel more confident in their abilities and decisions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Many people enter therapy with a harsh inner critic. I aim to increase a client’s awareness of harmful self-judgments and other counterproductive thought patterns (e.g., catastrophic reactions, all/none thinking) that lead to emotional suffering and unwanted behaviors. I help clients re-evaluate and reframe how they talk to themselves and begin to view themselves through a more constructive and sympathetic lens. I also help clients learn to manage emotional takeovers that hinder them with the use of effective coping and self-soothing tools. I strive for my clients to feel more at peace, to be more self-compassionate and confident, and to behave in a way that is more aligned with their true self and life values.
Psychodynamic
Sometimes we may be unaware of how our early life experiences are influencing our current life challenges. Emotions and memories from difficult times can be so painful that they are cast outside of our conscious awareness, and yet continue to influence how we feel, think, behave, make decisions, and interact with the people in our lives. I help clients become more aware of how adverse childhood experiences, family dysfunction, and past relationship wounds may still be affecting them and their relationships today. I help clients become more attuned to their feelings and underlying needs, and assist clients in letting go of unhealthy coping mechanisms that no longer serve them. With these insights, my clients develop more effective coping tools, learn to tend to their needs in healthy ways, and foster healthier and more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others.