Melissa Perry (she/her)

I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) as the gold-standard treatment for OCD and anxiety-driven avoidance. ERP works by gradually and safely exposing you to feared thoughts or situations while resisting compulsive responses — breaking the cycle that keeps you stuck. I pace ERP carefully, always within your window of tolerance. Effective for contamination OCD, harm OCD, ROCD, Pure O, health anxiety, and panic.

Attachment theory shapes how I understand every client I work with. Early attachment wounds — inconsistent caregiving, emotional unavailability, trauma, or loss — create patterns that follow us into adult relationships, work, and sense of self. I use attachment-informed therapy to help clients understand these patterns, build secure connection with themselves, and develop healthier relationships with others. Healing attachment wounds changes everything.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of my primary tools for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and chronic pain. Rather than fighting painful thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you change your relationship with them — building psychological flexibility so fear and pain no longer dictate your choices. We identify your core values and build a meaningful life around them — even in the presence of struggle. ACT doesn't wait for you to feel better to start living.

I treat anxiety at its root — not just its symptoms. Using ACT, CBT, DBT, ERP, somatic therapy, and EMDR I help clients with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, OCD, and health anxiety. My approach addresses the thoughts, the body, and the nervous system simultaneously. For first responders and healthcare workers whose anxiety is rooted in trauma and moral injury I bring 20+ years of specialized experience.

I specialize in depression that won't lift — including treatment-resistant depression where medications and traditional therapy haven't moved the needle. Using EMDR, ACT, somatic therapy, and licensed psilocybin-assisted therapy under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act I address depression at its roots — often trauma, grief, and nervous system dysregulation. For those carrying complicated grief I bring deep experience and genuine compassion.

Grief is not a problem to be solved — it is a profound human experience that deserves to be witnessed, not rushed. I work with grief from loss of loved ones, identity, relationships, career, and health. I also specialize in moral injury grief — the particular heartbreak of first responders and healthcare workers who carry losses most people never see. Using somatic therapy, ACT, and EMDR I help clients move through grief rather than around it.