Personal Statement

Are you an adult, facing a midlife crisis wondering where things began to go wrong, or perhaps you are contemplating divorce after suddenly waking up to the fact that you have been sleepwalking through your life for the past few years? Have you lost a sense of meaning in your life or connection to the person you thought you were until everything started to go wrong?

You may have tried rekindling the relationship fires by doing couple’s therapy or integrating a new communication technique that backfired, leaving you and your mate feeling even more hopeless and distant.  Or maybe you’ve walked the wild side and considered or acted out in an affair, hoping something inside of you would wake up and respond to the danger you were putting yourself in as a kind of shock therapy.

The reason none of this works is that midlife problems don’t usually have a quick fix like buying a new sports car, or engaging in a steamy affair. The “second half of life” is a call to dive in to that part of you that has been asleep waiting for you to wake up to the emptiness you are feeling.

This journey requires you to suffer enough so that you turn around and say, “What about me?” so that you actually reach for a way out.

The turn around begins when you ask the “big” questions, in search of the Truth. This inquiry is your passage into the depths of what you are truly made of to reach beyond your personality into the unknown:

My work is to guide you through the dark into freedom.

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Client Focus (Age)

  • Adults
  • Elders (65+)

Therapy Specialties

  • Anxiety
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Grief
  • Infidelity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Women's Issues

Treatment Orientation

  • Attachment-based
  • Family Systems
  • Humanistic
  • Integration of different therapy models
  • Interpersonal
  • Jungian
  • Mindfulness Based Approaches
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational
  • Somatic
  • Transpersonal

Modality

  • Individuals
  • Couples

Accepted Insurance Plans

  • Out Of Network

Years in Practice

10+ years

Services Fee

  • Therapy Session $170-$260

Payments Accepted

American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Mastercard, Visa

Licenses

License Name License State Year
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) 7006-125 WI 2006

Certifications

Name Year
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) 2014

Education

School Degree Major Year
Pacifice Graduate Institute MACounseling Psychology2005

Languages

  • English

Office Address


Melanie Murray, MA, LPC, SEP, BCST

I am interested in transformational work, in assisting people in understanding this depth journey and discovering the questions that lead to answers that navigate them into a new life of meaning and heart-full purpose.

11520 North Port Washington Road, Suite 107D

Mequon, Wisconsin 53092

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