Melanie Drameh – Trauma Therapist | Anxiety & Depression Specialist
My work has been shaped by people, life, and lived experience.
I have always had a deep curiosity about what helps people feel truly well, not just on the surface, but underneath. A love of life, travel, and human connection led me to live and work in different parts of the world, and through that I learned something important early on: happiness is not about circumstances, it’s about what’s happening inside us.
That curiosity is what first led me to study counselling in my early twenties, and I have not stopped learning or practising since.
Life Experience, Not Just Training
Like many people, my own life has included loss, shock, and change. I lost my father at a young age, struggled through my teenage years, experienced relationship breakdown, and learned what it meant to become a single parent.
These experiences taught me something that has stayed with me throughout my work:
We all carry far more on the inside than we show on the outside.
We never fully know what someone else is living with internally, even those closest to us. This understanding sits at the heart of how I work, with compassion, respect, and without judgement.
Why Change Feels So Hard
Over the years, I learned that we cannot change other people, no matter how much we try. What can change is how we respond, react, and relate.
When those reactions are driven by old emotional patterns or early life experiences, insight alone is rarely enough. This is where many people feel stuck, despite years of therapy.
My focus became clear: work at the level where patterns were first laid down, so change doesn’t require constant effort or willpower.
Professional Background & Understanding People
Alongside my therapeutic work, I spent many years in senior roles managing large teams and complex projects. This gave me a deep understanding of people, stress, leadership, communication, and performance.
Studying personality profiling systems such as DISC helped me see how differently people are wired, and how much difficulty arises simply from not understanding ourselves or each other.
Alongside my one-to-one therapeutic work, I also work within organisations, supporting leadership and management teams to work more effectively together. This includes consulting on what is needed to help teams strengthen relationships, improve communication, and grow cohesively, despite very different personalities, pressures, and working styles.
This experience informs everything I do. Whether I am working with an individual or a team, my focus is always on understanding underlying patterns, reducing unnecessary stress responses, and helping people work together with greater clarity, respect, and ease.
Finding What Truly Works
Over time, I trained in a wide range of approaches, including Counselling, NLP, Life Coaching, IEMT - Integral Eye Movement Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Timeline-based work, Unconscious Connection and trauma therapies.
What became clear was this:
Talking helps us understand, but the nervous system and the unconcious mind is what decides whether change actually happens.
Learning to work directly with the brain and the body opened the door to faster, deeper, and often gentler change. Many clients are relieved to discover they do not need to relive or retell everything in order to heal.
Trauma, the Nervous System & IEMT
Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) became a pivotal part of my work. Introduced to me through excellent teachers and mentors, including Andrew T Austin. IEMT allows emotional and identity patterns linked to trauma to soften without re-traumatisation.
Clients often ask:
“How has this shifted so quickly without me having to relive it all?”
This question sits at the heart of my practice. Once the nervous system and the unconscious feel safe, great changes can be made and sometimes, very quickly.
Mind, Body & Physical Symptoms
My work also recognises the close relationship between emotional distress and physical symptoms. When emotional signals are ignored for long enough, the body often finds a way to speak.
Approaches such as OldPain2Go have shown me, time and again, how physical pain can reduce significantly when the unconscious no longer needs to protect through symptoms.
Each person’s experience is different, and the body does the work in its own way and time.
How I Work Today
Every session is individual. No two people are the same.
I work calmly, respectfully, and at your pace, using the approaches that best support you.
My clients often describe:
- Being surprised at how much they enjoyed our session
- Feeling lighter and calmer
- Sleeping better, longer and deeper
- Responding differently to life, people and emotions
- Feeling more like themselves again.
I see my job as helping you to find your authentic self, the you that you were always meant to be, before any of this happened.
A Final Thought
I believe people can change more quickly and gently than they have been led to believe.
When we learn to feel safe within ourselves, develop self-trust, and soften old survival patterns, life opens up again.
This is the work I care deeply about.
If you would like to explore whether this feels right for you, you are welcome to get in touch for a free consultation on 07412443313.
There is no pressure. Just a conversation.
email or call today to arrange a free consultation.
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