Melanie Bennett is the founder of Shattering Snowglobes and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who honours people’s unique values, experiences, memories, goals, and the struggles that have shaped who they are. Melanie mainly works with clients who are encountering life transitions that cause them to feel stuck. Experiences of grief, strained relationships, traumatic events, family dysfunction, job stress, unexpected life changes, health diagnosis, financial scarcity, and even current global events can cause us to feel depressed, anxious, hopeless, unmotivated, indecisive, angry, and overwhelmed. With a humanistic and existential framework, Melanie works collaboratively and organically with clients to explore their issues in depth in order to find clarity, growth, and healing. She cherishes the therapeutic relationship as a source of strength and trust. She creates an atmosphere that is informal, warm, authentic, and relational, with a sprinkling of humour or curse words during appropriate moments.

About Melanie: Mel is a late bloomer, who struggled with low self-esteem and self-sabotage that led to years of feeling lost and carrying a core belief of being unworthy. She is a perpetual learner with multiple graduate degrees (some have accused her of being a professional student). She has also worked in various career fields with a variety of demographics. After a lot of detours and dead ends, she became an arts/performance practitioner, academic, and university instructor, which nurtured her sense of curiosity and opened doors to healing the traumatic wounds that had kept her stuck. Her years spent teaching, writing, and working in the performing arts, showed her that everyone has the creative potential to transform their lives. Most recently at midlife, Melanie reached her final career destination (and last degree) as a therapist, a vocation she has always wanted to pursue but needed to heal and grow first before being ready to support others in their own healing journey.

Fun fact: Melanie has an assistant named Lucy Lulu, who is a charming golden cavalier senior dog that is usually laying under the desk during sessions. If you’d like to meet her during your session, just ask and she will give you shots of virtual oxytocin with her comforting eyes.

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