Melanie Behrner's Bio
Melanie Behrner
BA, MPCC #2175
Counselling Adults, Couples & Youth,
Facilitating Workshops & Training Counsellors Since 2008
Your life is a rich Training ground for Your Soul.
Using its Lessons is your path
to Peace, Wisdom & Awakening.
Will you Say Yes?
My Training Path has included:
- Emotional sensitivity
- taught me discernment, intuition, how to track processes within the psyche and how to be in my heart
- Loss (of a parent, miscarriages, relationships, a career)
- showed me that if I surrender to the grieving process, it passed and freed up otherwise stuck emotions allowing for aliveness and new possibilities
- revealed that irritability and impatience were signs that I was ’emotionally full’, creating a need to make plenty of space & time for feelings through periods of grief
- expanded my reverence for the importance of the cycle of life
- Recovery from gaslighting
- taught me how to transform fogginess and confusion, trust my inner truth, and how to speak up for myself in a solid, grounded way
- Turmoil in relationships (romantic & friendships)
- taught me to identify my defence patterns & how to be accountable
- revealed the peaceful solidness of sharing my needs with clarity
- showed me that what I do to others, I do to myself
- taught me that my anxiety is a valuable flag so I can tune in and heal
- gave me the opportunity to transform emotional pain into deep, transformative healing
- Authoritarian parenting
· taught me tracking, intuition & risk assessment
- Ascension symptoms
- taught me inner-attunement, faith, grounding, intuition, and continues to slowly unearth psychic skills
- University degree
- taught me discipline, trust in myself & cognitive understanding
- Experiential transpersonal counsellor training
- gave me a deep understanding of ‘the how’ by experiencing and learning from the processes myself
- Routine old-growth forest bathing
- connects me to my shamanic family lineage
- revealed the process of ‘conscious journeying’, awakened my innate ability to channel light language and illuminated my psychic skills
- mirrors the truths of the Universe to me: its fractal nature & that we are all one
Formal Training:
Experience
- Counselling Adults, Youth & Couples
- Support Group & Workshop Facilitator
- Instructor: Counsellor Training Program (Clearmind International)
- Workshop Development
- Holotropic Breath Work Facilitator
- Youth Rites of Passage Programs
- High-Risk Youth Support
- Adaptive Learning & Programing
Education
- Master Practitioner of Clinical Counselling -- Canadian Professional Counsellor’s Association, since 2007
- Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling Psychology -- Clearmind International Institute, 2007
- Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) -- SFU, 2004
- Certified Life Coach -- Rhodes Career College, 1999
Professional Development
- Making Sense of Adolescence, 2025
- Adolescence & Sexuality, 2025
- Transformative Couples Therapy Experiential Skills, 2024
- Psychology of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, 2024
- Core Self Reclamation Therapy, 2023-24
- Developmental Model of Couples Therapy - Level 2, 2022-23
- Transforming Hostile Dependent Couples, 2022
- Developmental Model of Couples Therapy - Level 1, 2022
- Managing the Crisis of Infidelity, 2022
- Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain & Syndromes with Peter Levine, 2022
- Treating Trauma Master Series, 2022
- Reclaiming the Core Self Through Fierce Love, 2021
- Advanced Master Program in the Treatment of Trauma, 2021
- Trauma: Confusion to Clarity, 2020
- Transform Trauma through “Fierce Love” (AEDP), 2020
- AEDP Basics, 2020
- Positive Discipline (Parenting), 2020
- Suicide Prevention Summit, 2019
- Neufeld Parenting Conference, 2015
- Pure Energy Level 1, 2013
- Making Sense of Aggression, Neufeld Institute, 2013
- Neufeld Parenting Conference, 2013
- Pranic Healing, Level 1, 2011
- Working in Difficult Situations, 2010
- Ongoing monthly supervision
A Passion for Personal Expansion
My drive for “a better way” has been with me for as long as I can remember. I have longed for a way to experience a deep sense of joy, peace and connection, and the true freedom that comes from not being ruled by emotional reactivity and being a victim.
Transform Suffering into a Gift
I lived the first half of my life on an emotional roller coaster. My moods were subject to the people around me. If they were displeased, I felt I had to change. If they were upset, I tried to fix it. I yearned to experience peace, joy and stability. I pretended to the outside world that I was fine. But on the inside I felt very alone, misunderstood, and at times, it left me in some dark places.
From Chaos to the Eye of the Storm
I learned that every upset in my life was the key to finding that solid, calm centre within myself that I longed for. Upsets became opportunities to achieve what I longed for most: to be the calm in the middle of any storm. With the right tools and support, my big emotions that once seemed my biggest downfall, became my greatest tool for my personal evolution. This led me to the expansion of my intuitive skills as a therapist and healer. These intuitive skills continue to deepen within the context of the current planetary ascension.
The Secret of Happiness: An Attitude of Gratitude
I feel blessed for this rich life –struggles and all. This includes the supportive, connected, playful relationship with my husband where I am both challenged to be ever more emotionally accountable and am safe to keep uncovering the most vulnerable parts of myself. I am grateful for the privilege of raising an amazing starseed of a son who not only fills my heart with joy, but also shows me where I still have room to grow.
I am blessed to live on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC, where its old growth forests continue to hold me as I hone my crafts as a healer and my DNA awakens to my shamanic roots. They in turn support me to heal the transgenerational wounds of my ancestors and to be the light-worker I came here to be. This land provides me with the space to play, to treasure hunt for mushrooms and to paddle its waters.
And finally, I am inspired by the incredible community of friends, healers, starseeds, light-workers & grid-workers I’ve attracted to myself here. They show me what I never knew was possible.
When I’m not adventuring with my family, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, learning to be more self-sufficient or honing my passion for ascension, you can find me in the forests of the Sunshine Coast, BC foraging for edible mushrooms or hiking & snowshoeing with my 4-legged sidekick, Cedar.
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