Melanie Smithson

MA, LPC, ADTR, CHt

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Body Oriented Psychotherapy, EMDR Expert

Melanie Smithson Quick Facts

Main Areas: EMDR, Sedona Method Releasing, Trauma, Chronic Pain, Relationships
Career Focus: Speaker, Business Owner, Psychotherapist
Affiliation: EMDRIA, ADTA, Sedona Associates

Melanie Smithson, MA, ADTR, LPC, CHt holds a Master's degree from Naropa University in Somatic Psychology and taught for many years in the department. She is the co-owner of Smithson Clinic, Inc. an alte ative health clinic in Denver, Colorado. Her orientation is towards incorporating the wisdom of the body into therapy sessions, as well as releasing emotions that may have gotten caught in the body. Physical ailments are often connected to buried emotions and will shift as the emotions shift. She is a certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) clinician and works with the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy. She has also completed coach training with Sedona Associates and incorporates Sedona Method Releasing in her work. Melanie specializes in relationship, grief and loss, trauma, childhood abuse issues, anxiety and depression. She is passionate about play for young and old, believing the creative process to be key to healing and spiritual growth.

Click here to see Melanie's curriculum vitae, in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Melanie is also trained to facilitate Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy Sessions as developed by Michael Newton, author of Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. Visit Melanie's Life Between Lives website at: www.lifebetween.com.

Free Articles & Book Excerpts

Play for Your Health: Renewing the Joy of Service

http://www.smithsonclinic.com/play.php

Introduction to the Sedona Method

http://www.smithsonclinic.com/pdfs/BHS%20Sedona%20talk%201.pdf

Tips for Successful Relating

http://www.smithsonclinic.com/successful-relating.php

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A New Way to Heal: NeuroModulation Technique Profoundly Improves Health and Well-Being

For many people, there is still a disconnect between physical, mental and spiritual health. Western medicine and culture teaches us to see the body as separate from emotions and the brain as separate from the spirit. Some people are intuitively aware this doesn’t make sense-they have experienced ...

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Tips for Being with Pain

When we are in pain, we are emotionally fragile for many reasons. The first reason is that most of our energy is going to fix the pain and there’s often not enough left for dealing with life. Also, when we are in pain our belief in our own invincibility is threatened. On top of this, we ...

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6 Tips for Successful Relating

1. Know what’s your business and stay out of what’s not your business So often we take responsibility for another person’s well-being (or what our idea of that is) and we try to get them to do what we think is best. The problem with this is that most of the time, nobody asked for our help. ...

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How to get started

To learn about my clinic and services, please visit Smithson Clinic, Inc.