what type of therapies do you offer?

Both mel and sarah practice a number of therapeutic modalities, believing that an individualized person-centered approach allows for greater attuning to each client’s needs, vulnerabilities, readiness and personality.

three modalities commonly used in sessions are listed below. Each encourages clients to honor their capacity and readiness for change while supporting emotional/somatic release and memory integration. click on the link to learn more!

• internal family systems / parts work

• brain-spotting

• emdr

Recommended Reading By Topics 

Trauma Recovery  

• What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

• Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

• Break The Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Burqué

• Know My Name by Chanel Miller

• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

• You Are The One You Are Waiting for by Richard Schwartz

• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

• The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. McBride

• What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Consent 

• In The House Of Me by Mel Gentry Bosna 

• Consent (for Kids!) by Rachel Brian

• Girlhood by Melissa Febos

• The Wheel Of Consent by Betty Martin and Robyn Dalzen

• Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel

• Yes Means Yes by Jaclyn Friedman

Collective Liberation / Anti-Racism

• All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep by Andre Henry

• Do You Still Talk To Grandma by Brit Barron

• Liberated To The Bone by Susan Raffo

• This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley

• An Indigenous History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

• Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

• Good & Mad by Rebecca Traister

• How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

• On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

• Patriarchy Blues by Frederick Joseph

• Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

• Raising Anti-Racist Children by Britt Hawthrone 

• Rest as Resistance by Tricia Hersey

• She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

• The Quaking of America by Resmaa Menace

• UnBound by Tarana Burke

• White Supremacy & Me by Layla Saad

• All The Black Girls Are Activists by EbonyJanice

• Be A Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

• The Will To Change by bell hooks

• Shoutin’ In The Fire by Dante Stewart

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

growth / Self-Help

• As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Parks

• The Kids Are All Right by Ben & Gabrielle Blair

• and Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers by Theodore R. Burnes and Jamila Dawson

• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

• Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

• Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

• Push Off From Here by Laura McKowen

• Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitaker

• Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

• Your Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor 

• Could It Be Better by Cher Anderton

• The Power Of Attachment by Diane Poole Heller

• Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabriele Blair

Recommended Listening

This list of podcast episodes is not an endorsement of any particular person/podcast but rather highlights the importance of the specific conversation that’s had in these episodes.

• The Urgent Need for Compassion (interview with Alok on The Man Enough Podcast) 

• Touching the Divine Through Embodied Consent (podcast with The Sanctuary Shamanic Healing Center) 

• Should We Stay & Fight, Leave or Do Nothing – conversation with Sarah Polley on We Can Do Hard Things Podcast 

• An Introduction to Third-Way

Workshops, Trainings & Film

• Comprehensive Consent Workshops

• Consent Wizard: Education, Coaching & Groups

• CONSENTparenting

• Women Talking (film) 

• Hannah Gadsby Netflix special : Nanette (2018)