Melissa Paakh
Trauma · Relationships · Emotional Healing
Helping individuals, couples, and families navigate trauma, relationship wounds, addiction, anxiety, and identity healing through an insight-oriented and trauma-informed approach.
Currently practicing under licensed clinical supervision in California.
About
About Melissa
Melissa Paakh is a psychotherapist trainee pursuing advanced clinical training in Marriage and Family Therapy and trauma-focused treatment. Her work integrates relational, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and psychodynamic perspectives to help clients better understand patterns, heal emotional wounds, and build healthier relationships.
Melissa works with adults, couples, and families experiencing:
- Narcissistic abuse recovery
- Relationship trauma
- Borderline personality dynamics
- Divorce and separation
- Family systems impacted by addiction
- Anxiety and depression
- Trauma and complex PTSD
- Codependency and attachment wounds
- Identity rebuilding after emotionally abusive relationships
Melissa's therapeutic style is warm, direct, compassionate, and insight-oriented, creating a space where clients can feel emotionally safe while doing deep transformational work.
Currently practicing under the supervision of: Dr. Markus Rogan
Areas of Focus
Narcissistic Abuse & Emotional Manipulation
Support for individuals recovering from gaslighting, emotional abuse, coercive relationships, and toxic relational dynamics.
Borderline Personality Dynamics
Helping clients navigate emotional intensity, attachment wounds, relational instability, and identity-related struggles with compassion and structure.
Divorce & Relationship Trauma
Therapy for heartbreak, betrayal trauma, separation, unhealthy relationship cycles, and rebuilding self-worth after painful relationships.
Addiction & Family Systems
Working with individuals and families impacted by substance abuse, codependency, enabling patterns, and intergenerational trauma.
Anxiety, Depression & Trauma
Support for nervous system regulation, emotional overwhelm, self-esteem, chronic stress, and unresolved trauma.
Approach
My Approach
I believe symptoms often develop in response to unresolved pain, attachment injuries, trauma, and relational experiences — not personal weakness.
Therapy is a collaborative process designed to help clients:
- Understand emotional patterns
- Improve relationships
- Develop healthier boundaries
- Increase self-awareness
- Heal trauma responses
- Rebuild trust in themselves
My work is trauma-informed, relational, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based clinical principles.
Contact
Book a consultation.
Send a note with a little about what's bringing you to therapy. I'll reply within two business days.
Or email directly: melissapaakh@gmail.com