Melissa Shane
For more than two decades, Melissa Shane has helped children, teens, adults, and families navigate life’s most difficult seasons with insight, compassion, and practical tools for lasting change.
As founder of Healing Hearts Counseling, Melissa blends advanced trauma training with a deeply human approach to therapy. Her work focuses on helping clients move beyond survival mode and create lives marked by resilience, connection, confidence, and meaning.
Melissa specializes in trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, family-of-origin wounds, narcissistic abuse recovery, women’s mental health, and life transitions. She is trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, mindfulness-based therapies, play therapy, and trauma-informed treatment approaches.
A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Melissa also spent thirteen years teaching psychology at the university level, bringing both clinical expertise and a passion for education into her work.
Clients often describe Melissa as authentic, insightful, creative, and refreshingly down-to-earth. She believes healing happens when people feel truly seen, understood, and empowered to write the next chapter of their story.
Outside the office, Melissa enjoys family, the arts, music, storytelling, and finding wonder in both the beautiful and unexpected.