I had been in many kinds of psychological treatments for over 25 years. I had been searching for some relief from a myriad of symptoms including depression, anxiety, and extremely low self-esteem. The teachers and therapists that have crossed my path have been helpful to some extent but I somehow have always come away feeling that something was missing. I began to wonder if I was inherently "hard to treat" or simply untreatable.
I started working with Melissa one year ago and started to notice an immediate change in my consciousness after the first session we had. She asked me to leave my head and all the thoughts that came with, behind. She asked me to enter into my body and stay with my visceral experience. I am a trained psychoanalyst! How unorthodox! How was I suppose to leave my analyzing outside the door and have faith in something that was missing from my 10 years of professional training. I had no choice. I wanted to heal and feel better and was willing to bring every part of who I was into the room with myself and Melissa.

I do know that Melissa has taken me to a higher level of consciousness than I could have ever reached on my own without her help. I have broken through walls, barriers, resistances, and unbearable fear in the last year. She has allowed me to respect my body and witness for myself the "stories" that my flesh has stored away for a life time. No amount of analyzing and talking could ever have reached the depths of my torment. I can now look into my mirror and see a different woman than who she was one year ago. I have let go of that tight grip I've held for so long. I feel a sense of freedom and aliveness that now graces my life every day!
                                                         Thank you, Melissa.

~A.W.

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“Being that life places many uphills and downhills at us all, I wasn't surprised that it would be very difficult for me to go through a divorce after an eight and a half-year old marriage.  I knew that if I kept myself occupied with work and with training rigorously for a marathon, I would be okay.  But as much as I did to try to move forward, I wasn't truly getting to the bottom of my feelings or getting any closer to healing myself or feeling closure with the relationship.
It wasn't until I began my cranial sacral sessions with Melissa Giaquinto that I truly began to move forward. Soon after the beginning of the session, I began to feel a strong relief unlike no other.  I was verbalizing and experiencing throughout my body many thoughts that I had purposefully not allowed to flow throughout my body. 
Needless to say, my sessions with Melissa undeniably led me to a path in life that has led me to resolve many issues.  Everything that I realized that I wanted a year ago, I now have.  And throughout all of our sessions, I have been greatly indebted to her for enlightening me with her gift of healing.”

~A. F.

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 “My experience with CranioSacral happened when I was just starting the process of going through a divorce. Melissa created an atmosphere of safety and trust. The session brought up a lot of emotions. I found myself crying, but able to really let it out. I didn't feel like what I was saying or remembering was judged.  At one point, some very hurtful experiences came back and Melissa was right there with me, helping me through it.

Since the treatment, I find that I am not weighed down with worries and hurts like I was before.  I also don't feel like life is just happening to me.  I feel like I have more control and like I am seeing into situations more clearly.  I definitely feel a lot less conflicted inside.  Also, situations from my past that just kept bothering me, because I didn't understand them are suddenly becoming clear and with understanding, I have finally been able to just simply let them go.”

~D.E. 

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"Things have very much shifted for me over the past few months of working with Melissa. I’m thankful for her showing me that even small changes can have very big effects. She has helped me release old fears, tensions, and physical and mental habits and as a result I feel quite brave and free, as though I have truly broadened my possibilities."

 ~R.B

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 "My experience with Melissa Giaquinto, was incredible. I am dealing with a condition that has affected both my physical, and mental health.  Not many people understand that the two are completely intertwined, and in most cases the mental causes the physical, or at least greatly affects it.  Melissa not only understands this, she has the ability to see what you, and I may not see. She can see through the excuses, and the blocks that may be keeping you in a state of imbalance.  Melissa has the ability to talk to your body, as well as your mind, and you will feel immediate results.  I can say this because this was my very positive experience.  Today, I feel so much better than the day I walked through her door, and a large part of that is because of my interaction with her".

~ P. R.