Meet Melina
Melina Santos,MA
Mental Health Counseling Intern Bilingual English/Spanish Holistic Healing Practitioner
Some wounds don't live in the mind alone.
They live in the body, in the blood, in the stories your grandparents carried and never got to put down. They live in the parts of you that learned to stay small, stay quiet, stay useful — because that's what kept you safe.
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I'm Melina Santos, and I help people heal at every level — not just the surface.
As both a clinical mental health counseling intern and a trained shamanic practitioner, I offer something rare: a space where evidence-based therapy and spiritual wisdom exist side by side. You don't have to choose between your healing and your spirituality. Here, they belong together.
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My clinical work draws on Internal Family Systems (IFS), trauma-informed approaches, and culturally responsive care. My shamanic practice is rooted in ancestral healing, intuition development, and helping clients reconnect with their inner knowing — the quiet voice that's been there all along, waiting for you to listen.
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I work especially with:
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Women of color navigating cultural identity and intergenerational patterns
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Highly sensitive people and empaths who absorb the world too deeply
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Chronic people-pleasers who are finally ready to choose themselves
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Individuals who feel called to explore healing through a spiritual lens
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Hispanic and Latinx clients (services available in Spanish)
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Teens 12+ and young adults finding their authentic voice
You don't have to have it all figured out before you come to me. You just have to be willing to begin.
My Specialties
For clients who are tired of being “easy to love” at the expense of being honest.
People-Pleasing
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Self-Neglect
For clients who feel misunderstood, overstimulated, or emotionally flooded.
Highly Sensitive
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Empathic Clients
Anxiety + Emotional Overwhelm
For clients who feel everything deeply and need tools to feel steady again.
For clients navigating family expectations, identity, guilt, and inherited emotional patterns.
Cultural
+ Inter-generational Healing
Spiritual
Wellness
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Shamanic
Informed
Healing
For clients who want to explore healing through meaning, intuition, energy, and deeper self-connection.
Working with Melina is not about being fixed
It is about slowing down enough to understand what your anxiety, sensitivity, exhaustion, sadness, anger, or disconnection has been trying to tell you.
Sessions may include emotional regulation skills, self-awareness practices, nervous system grounding, identity exploration, boundary work, family pattern exploration, values clarification, and practical tools for daily life.
For clients who are open to it, Melina may also integrate spiritual reflection, intuitive exploration, and shamanic-informed healing practices as part of the therapeutic process.