About - Melissa Grabau

About Melissa Garbau

The planet is an interplay of light and dark energies. You are a a vessel made of star dust circulating this energy. The challenge is honing your energetic system so that you can recognize the dark energy, feel it, process it and transform it into meaning. Meaning holds the light.

It is imperative that you strengthen and hone your energetic system so you can fulfill your energetic function as a trauma processor. In light of this, self care is not a luxury; It is a mandate.

Your foundation resides in your body. Self-care starts with facing the inevitability of the flesh. It entails being a warrior in the face of your own pleasure and despair. Feel the impingements of craving and desire. Take one more breath and and resolve to move forward on your own behalf.

Your ability to process and regulate life energy, including oxygen, food, money and the inevitable impingements of craving and aversion, functions within the vessel of bone, flesh and feeling you inhabit. Your identity and sense of self is wrought from this foundation. It is your responsibility to care and tend to this vessel so you can stand up to the dark and generate the light.

Background and Training

My background is a hybrid of rigorous academic training informed by my ongoing personal interest in yoga, Buddhist psychology, and new age consciousness leaders. I received my undergraduate training at the University of Vermont in 1988, with a double major in Religion and Psychology. I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University in 1999. I relocated to California at that time and established a private practice in 2002. I recently completed training in the use of psychedelics in therapy at the California Institute for Integral Studies and also completed a training in the use of ketamine at Polaris in San Francisco.

Services Provided

Providing TeleHealth Throughout California & In-person Therapy Sessions

Telehealth

Providing psychotherapy for adults throughout California via Telehealth

In-Person

Providing in-person office visits in Davis, CA.

Small Group

Offering small group sessions providing yoga and relational support for women.

Healing

Neuronic photobiomodulation and full body red light therapy.