Hi, I'm Melanie. Before pursuing social work, I spent many years as a registered nurse in hospice, hospitals, and community settings, accompanying people through some of life's most profound transitions. I was drawn to this work because I believe healing happens when people feel supported in reconnecting with their own wisdom, resilience, and capacity for growth. As an intern at Bodhi, I hope to help create spaces where people can navigate change, loss, uncertainty, and personal transformation with greater clarity, self-compassion, and trust in themselves.

BACKGROUND

• Registered Nurse (RN) with experience in hospice, critical care, and community health settings.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Social Work candidate at Chamberlain University.

• Founder of Threshold Doula, providing end-of-life education, grief support, community programming, and death-positive education.

• Experience supporting individuals experiencing homelessness, housing instability, chronic illness, grief, caregiving challenges, and major life transitions.

• Drawn to holistic, relational, trauma-informed, somatic, and strengths-based approaches to healing.

I feel most energized working with adults who find themselves at a threshold in life. This may include grief and loss, burnout, caregiving, perimenopause, changing relationships, questions of meaning and purpose, spiritual exploration, or seasons when an old way of living no longer fits and something new is trying to emerge. I am particularly interested in helping people reconnect with vitality, cultivate supportive community, and meet change with greater intention, embodiment, and self-trust.

At this stage of my training, I am not seeking to specialize in intensive trauma treatment, severe personality disorders, court-mandated services, or highly acute psychiatric presentations requiring a higher level of care.