Charan Mellor (he/him)

Trauma leaves us reacting to the present as if the past is still happening. Traditional coping skills can feel like putting a band-aid on a deep wound. Utilizing neuroscience and Coherence Therapy, my approach is non-counteractive, meaning we don't force you to simply "push through" the triggers. Together, we safely access and facilitate memory reconsolidation, allowing your brain to naturally update and clear the old traumatic emotional learnings, freeing you from the grip of survival mode.

Depression often feels like a heavy, inescapable fog, but neurobiology reveals it is frequently the brain’s ultimate protective shutdown response. My training in Tori Olds’ "Minding the Heart" and Coherence Therapy guides our work to go beyond just coping with the weight. We utilize memory reconsolidation to target the root schemas that make shutting down feel necessary. By bringing warmth and curiosity to these protective patterns, we naturally restore your energy and vitality.

Anxiety isn't a flaw; it is a brilliant but exhausting survival mechanism. When your nervous system is stuck in overdrive, traditional coping skills often backfire. Grounded in neuroscience, my approach is non-counteractive: we meet your anxiety rather than try to manage it. Using Coherence Therapy, we compassionately uncover and update the implicit emotional learnings driving the alarm. Lasting relief comes from this deep psychological coherence, not from exhausting, forceful management.

IFS views the mind as a system of protective and wounded "parts." Rather than fighting the parts of you that cause anxiety or shutdown, we welcome them. I integrate IFS with Coherence Therapy to target transformational change. By helping you meet these protective parts with compassion rather than trying to manage them, we access their implicit emotional learnings. This allows your brain to naturally update and release the heavy survival burdens those parts have carried.

AEDP is rooted in the belief that you are already wired for healing. It focuses on "undoing aloneness" by deeply experiencing emotions within a safe, supportive relationship. I integrate AEDP with the principles of Coherence Therapy to facilitate memory reconsolidation. By bringing warmth and radical acceptance to your emotional experience, we create the exact neurobiological conditions needed to unlock and fundamentally update your oldest survival patterns, leading to profound change.

Traditional therapy is often counteractive, teaching you to fight or manage symptoms. Experiential therapy aims for transformational change. Guided by Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy, we use memory reconsolidation to fundamentally update the emotional learnings driving your distress. You'll recognize this shift through its distinct markers: effortless symptom relief, non-recurrence, and old triggers losing their power. We meet your pain to transform it, rather than just manage it.