My name is Melanie (pronouns she/ her).

I am a somatic psychotherapist and coach. I am also a creative, a sister, partner, mother, aunty, and friend. I identify as an adult third-culture kid (TCK), cross-cultural kid, US-born dual-citizen, a daughter of Singaporean and Thai parents, both of Chinese descent, partner to a US-naturalized White South African husband, and mother to a tri-citizen third-culture kid. I was raised and grew up in an international community in Northern Thailand. I then migrated to the rainy city of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest US as a young adult. There I studied counseling psychology and started my therapy practice. I’ve been working with individuals in private practice since 2017.

I have recently returned to my fatherland of Thailand where I make home with my family by the sea. I feel most at home when I am frolicking crowded night markets or when I am in transit at an airport. As someone who has lived in the hyphen, I know the heartache of belonging everywhere and no where at once. My hope for you is that you can be fiercely kind to yourself as you move towards a rooted sense of located-ness and connection.

I am committed to my own continued growing and healing, decolonizing therapy, acknowledging my own privileged intersections of my identity, and nurturing collective care and community. I currently practice in community with Mosaic Counseling Collective.

Again, welcome. I look forward to meeting you.