Melissa Moss

About

Melissa (Mel) is a Registered Psychologist, Holistic Counsellor, and Certified Clinical Trauma Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, with extensive experience across private and organisational sectors in Australia and the UK.  She integrates evidence-based, trauma-informed, humanistic, somatic, and mindfulness approaches with a compassionate, creative, and whole-person focus.

Mel works with adults navigating a wide range of challenges, including trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, dissociations, depression, grief, and relational struggles. She takes a non-pathologizing approach, viewing distress not as something inherently wrong with a person, but as a meaningful response to lived experiences, relationships, environments, and unmet needs.  

Grounded in trauma-informed, humanistic, and systemic frameworks, she supports clients in understanding their experiences, making sense of their responses, and developing strategies to live in greater alignment with their values and needs.

Mel’s work also centres on building a secure and attuned therapeutic relationship. Research shows this is the most important factor in effective therapy.  She believes in seeing the functions beneath what may otherwise be interpreted as “dysfunction”, helping clients experience the freedom, vitality, and clarity that come from living congruently with their true selves.

Therapeutic Approaches

Drawing from a diverse range of evidence- based methods and approaches, therapy sessions are tailored and aligned with the humanistic ethos. These include:

• Person-Centered Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

• Internal family systems therapy (IFS)

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (trauma-informed somatic therapy)

• Schema Therapy

• Gestalt Psychology

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Non-violent Communication (NVC)

• Art and Sand-Tray Therapy

• Psycho-Education: Developmental / Attachment Theory, Neuroscience, Social Science, and more.