Melissa Kester, LMFT provides therapy for individuals, couples and adult family members. By looking into past and present relationships, we work to develop new patterns and capacities with our clients to allow them more fulfilling relationships.
We are a community of engaged and thoughtful, systemically trained practitioners. Melissa practices indepth psychotherapy that incorporates systemic, relational, contemplative and psychodynamic therapy.
We all carry emotional gravity. We affect each other—sometimes with tenderness, sometimes with impact. When we learn to stay in our own safe orbit while reaching for one another, co-regulation becomes a gift instead of a burden. Inside, you’ll find “love and limits,” timeouts, and repair tools to return to “us.”
Read MoreWe have been told for years that money doesn't buy happiness, however, an article in mindbodygreen.com would disagree...
Read MoreFeltman, takes us through an average work day giving us little helpful tips to make our experience better on an individual basis. She is not proposing we switch jobs, but maybe a better way to rise and shine and be just you.
Read MoreIt is not unusual to have tasks that go into the next day, but now our society lives each day where 24 hours is just not enough. It is so satisfying to leave each day with our tasks completed, but this notion seems like a distant memory for most of us. As Tim Kreider, wrote in the New York Times...
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Does the Level of stress we have in our lives define our level of success and more specifically who we are?
We complain of feeling tired all the time, of being overwhelmed with duties of work,family, personal health, and commitment to friends. As we attempt to help manage and curb the overwhelming duties involved , we can present with a level of resistance akin to someone stealing our identity. Many of us try to achieve a near perfect outcome to all of the "have to's" in our lives...
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