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Your path to emotional freedom, sobriety, and healthy relationships starts here.

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Transform Your Life: 12-Week Sobriety Program

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Ready to quit drinking in the evenings and create a balanced, fulfilling life?

  • Ā Gain Clarity and Focus
  • Build Healthier, Authentic Relationships
  • Achieve Emotional Balance and Control
  • Improve Physical and Mental Health
  • Rediscover Purpose and Self-Worth

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Our comprehensive 12-week program is tailored to help you take control and build a future free from dependency.

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Healing Love Addiction: Break Free from Toxic Cycles

Are unhealthy relationship patterns holding you back?

Are you always seeking validation, approval, or sense of worth from someone else?

Are you constantly prioritizing your partner's needs over your own, or enduring toxic dynamics just to avoid being alone?

Our Love Addiction Therapy is designed to help you identify and break toxic cycles, while building emotional independence and fostering healthy connections.

  • Ā Gain Emotional FreedomĀ Ā 
  • Ā Build Healthy RelationshipsĀ 
  • Ā Strengthen Self-WorthĀ 
  • Ā Establish Clear Boundaries
  • Ā Break Free from Toxic Patterns
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Individual Counselling Services

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At Mel Watkins Therapy, we recognize that life's challenges are multifaceted. While we specialise in supporting individuals dealing with substance use issues, we also provide empathetic and dialetical behaviour therapy for a variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, binge eating, and trauma.

Our mission is to create a secure and non-judgmental environment where you can navigate the complexities of your emotions and experiences. Whether you're wrestling with anxiety, grappling with depression, coping with binge eating, or processing the aftermath of trauma, we're here to offer compassionate and skill based support.

If you're seeking a dedicated and empathetic counselor to guide you through these challenges, Mel Watkins is here for you. Take the first step towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.

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About Mel Watkins

Melissa Watkins is a licensed Psychotherapist with experience in the treatment of addiction, including alcohol and drug abuse, as well as mental health concerns.

With experience in both hospital settings and private practice, Mel has have helped men and women reduce and quit substances, helping them establish a positive self-esteem, and develop new coping mechanisms. Mel has the below qualifications

  • Graduate diploma of counselling with Australian College of Applied Professions.
  • Practising certified licensedĀ  psychotherapist/counsellor approved by The Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
  • Certified coach with Authentic Education.
  • Ā Dialectical Behaviour Skills Training with Dr Marsha Linehan.
  • Currently studying a graduate certificate of Psychology with Australian College of Applied Professions.
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Key Recovery Principles

Coping Skills

Coping skills

Learn skills to gain better personal control and decision making with CBT and DBT techniques

Connection & Accountability

Connection & Accountability

Be supported by likeminded people through monthly group workshops and the INMIB community.

Emotional Regulation

Master your emotions through DBT skills, mindfulness and breathwork techniques.

Strength Building

Strength Building

Build your mental, physical and spiritual needs through self reflection, radical acceptance, selfcare, empowerment and commitment.

Relapse Prevention

Relapse Prevention

Learn from your set backs and build from your successes. Create a plan for potential relapses and see recovery as an ongoing journey.

Hope

Hope

Learn self-compassion and gain hope from your recovery. You will be supported to celebrate your wins and encouraged to adapt flexible thinking to your problems.

Are you tired of failed attempts to quit drinking or using?

Check out our 12-week online recovery program. Breaking Free is an evidence-based treatment plan designed to help you break the cycle of substances.

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Ditch Alcohol and Build a Fulfilling, Balanced, Healthy Life!

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