Melissa Vaughn, MSW, LICSW
Bilingual Therapist
“Clients are the experts of their own healing.”
EDUCATION
Melissa received her Master’s degree in Social Work through the University of Minnesota.
EXPERIENCE
Melissa has over 15 years of experience working in mental health and social services, for which much of her work has been focused on community mental health, immigration, and trauma. Her work with trauma has been primarily with adults, and includes single, complex, and generational trauma. Melissa has extensive experience treating a variety of anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as several years of experience working with the geriatric community. She has also worked with caregivers, led caregiver support groups, and has training and personal experience in working with families facing Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
CERTIFICATIONS
Melissa is a bilingual, licensed social worker. She has training in and experience with TF-CBT, Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Insight-Oriented, and Mindfulness.
MENTAL HEALTH APPROACH
Melissa believes that her clients are the experts of their own healing process and sees it an honor to have the opportunity to hold a validating, non-judgmental, safe space to those she serves. She finds great satisfaction in offering herself as witness to her client’s suffering, strengths, and internal resources, and It is within this space that she finds clients are fully capable of accessing their own inner-wisdom, while fostering self-compassion, radical acceptance, and personal growth. She enjoys integrating therapeutic modalities to fit each client’s unique interests and needs, although she finds the positive relationship between therapist and client to be the most powerful ingredient.
CURRENT PRACTICE
Melissa provides individual therapy for adults. She conducts therapy sessions in both English and Spanish and has served the Latinx community in a variety of non-profit organizations.
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