Yael Melamed, MBA MFT

Organizations maximize performance by improving the wellness, psychological safety and emotional intelligence of their members. I partner with companies to design and facilitate training programs to satisfy mutually created learning goals. I form meaningful, supportive relationships with clients across organizational levels, ranging from CEOs to analysts, to assist them in their growth and transformation.

Psychotherapy is helpful for specific issues and also for more general concerns about where your life is going. My approach is warm and supportive, and I also care enough about you to be real with you; so I will challenge beliefs, behaviors, and patterns that do not serve you. Together, we will look at your current struggles and history, opening the door to your deeper thoughts, feelings, and wishes.

Individual therapy offers a relationship that is dedicated exclusively to you and your development: a laboratory in which we can explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as issues around career, relationships and attachment, communication, and outdated belief systems.

Like in most relationships, interpersonal issues will likely arise between us, but unlike most relationships, we can constructively explore and work through what arises to create transformative and corrective experiences.You will be supported and challenged, without judgment. We will work to heal parts of you that have been hurt, let go of parts of you that no longer serve you, and awaken parts of you that have been silenced or shut down.

Couples counseling sessions are typically 50 minutes, but depending on your situation, 75 or 100 minute sessions are also an option. Many relationships fail because people have unrealistic expectations. Difficult times are not necessarily a sign that you should break up. In fact, difficult times are to be expected and part of the natural life cycle of relationships.

Group psychotherapy is a proven method of working through difficulties in relationships with ourselves, friends, family, and intimate partners, including struggles with: depression, alone-ness, social anxiety, conflict, exclusion and inclusion, shyness, and competitiveness. A group format is one step closer to real life than individual therapy, as you are dealing with a sampling of people versus a mental health professional exclusively.