Three Little Birds Counseling
Melissa Stadler
Clinical Therapist LCSW
Hi there! I'm so glad you're here.
All of us need to feel like we have someone to turn to in moments when life feels overwhelming. Sometimes we need help finding our way back to contentment and meaning. I offer you a space to come together in honesty about what you’re going through, knowing that you will be met with empathy, respect, and kindness. Your feelings and needs are valid.
You deserve to feel seen, heard, and understood from a place of compassion.
I enjoy working with all kinds of people who have all kinds of stories. Listening to those stories with warmth, respect, and gratitude is very important to me.
I specialize in gentle parenting, postpartum and perinatal mood disorders, parent coaching, life transitions, relationships, grief, LGBTQ issues, and emotional support for teens and adults.
Three Little Birds Counseling is an affiliated partner of The Gentle Parenting Institute
Let's Work Together
Life is something, isn’t it? Moments of joy, accomplishment, and meaning can feel fleeting, and many of us find we spend much of our time wondering if we’re the only ones struggling to picture what contentment even looks like. Actually maintaining it in our daily lives can seem impossible. We look around at our families, our careers, our friendships, our relationships with our children, our internal processes, and we see areas where there is room for growth and change. The difference between noticing what we want to improve and having the strength, support, and tools to actually do it can feel vast. And lonely.
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Sometimes just knowing you have someone to talk to who will listen, with warmth and kindness and without judgment, can make all the difference. Learning to see contentment not as a goal to be achieved but a skill that can be nurtured through connection and vulnerability is how we begin to imagine it is possible. Which of course is how we begin to make it so.
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Let's work together to build your capacity for growth. Let's build skills, confidence, and self-compassion. The reality of life is that moments of deep joy may be fleeting, but so are times of pain and the quiet "in-between" is where most of the meaning lies. We can work together to understand that meaning in your life and to learn to make the most of it. You are capable of more than you know.
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