Melissa Mellon, LMFT, Author at Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families

Couples Therapy: Coping with Anxiety About Becoming Foster or Adpotive Parents

Look at you go! You’ve made the decision to bring a foster child into your home. How beautiful is that! While this is a very exciting change for your family and partnership, there are likely lots of concerns coming up, too. Perhaps you and/or your partner have wanted to become a foster parent for years,Continue reading “Couples Therapy: Coping with Anxiety About Becoming Foster or Adpotive Parents”

Trauma in LGBTQIA+ Folks

There are many reasons folks in the LGBTQIA+ community seek therapy. American society was built on patriarchal values. These values have elevated heteronormativity throughout history and still today. Heteronormativity refers to the idea that being cis-gendered is the “right” way to be. It also promotes the idea that identities outside of cis-gender and heterosexual areContinue reading “Trauma in LGBTQIA+ Folks”

What To Do if Anxiety is Affecting Your Sleep

A woman with a blank stare lays in bed. This could represent anxiety related insomnia. Anxiety treatment in Orange County, CA can provide support. Contact an anxiety therapist to learn more about anxiety treatment for teens in Orange County, CA.

You’ve been here too many times before. Lying awake staring at the ceiling. You scroll on Instagram and make to-do lists in the dead of night because your brain won’t run a million miles a minute. Anxiety has kept you up late at night for years now. Or, ever since the intense stress of theContinue reading “What To Do if Anxiety is Affecting Your Sleep”

EMDR Therapy Worked For Jo on Grey’s Anatomy, But Can it Work for Me?

Woman standing outside on a gray day. She is struggling with anxiety and depression, and has been seeking the right treatment. Moxie Family Therapy offers emdr treatment in california. Contact us today for emdr therapy for ptsd, and more.

If you are a big Grey’s fan, you probably saw the episode last year where Jo works with a therapist on her long history of trauma. If you don’t have experience with EMDR therapy, it may not have really registered for you. Some people I ask about the episode don’t really remember much of it.Continue reading “EMDR Therapy Worked For Jo on Grey’s Anatomy, But Can it Work for Me?”

What is Online Therapy?

happy african american woman sitting at table with laptop participating in an online therapy session

Therapy has completely changed since COVID 19. None of us could ever have imagined that at any point in our lives, therapy would be done almost completely online. But, COVID 19 has caused so many changes in our day to day lives. So being able to start psychotherapy from the comfort of your own homeContinue reading “What is Online Therapy?”