Melissa Middlebrook (practicing as Melissa Faye) is a licensed clinical social worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Asheville, North Carolina, licensed in both NC and NY. She specializes in somatic psychotherapy for trauma, chronic stress, chronic illness, and anxiety. She also provides clinical supervision to LCSWAs in Asheville and the surrounding areas and is a trauma-informed yoga teacher.

Specialties

Depth orientation

Middlebrook integrates somatic experiencing with relational and attachment-informed therapy, attending to the embodied dimensions of developmental and relational trauma with particular sensitivity to how chronic stress and illness manifest in the body.

SEP’s approach Preparing for a first session with SEP