Meet Maria Mellano, LICSW, CP/PAT 

Maria Mellano, LICSW, CP/PAT, is a psychotherapist and certified psychodramatist who has been accompanying people on their journeys of healing, growth, and transformation since 1999.

Her work is grounded in the belief that healing is not about becoming someone new, better or different... we don't need to be fixed.

Her work is about remembering who we truly are with the soul aligned with the ego, reclaiming what has been lost or forgotten, and healing our way home to ourself - a place of true belonging.

Warm, intuitive, engaged, and direct, Maria works powerfully with highly attuned, sensitive people, fellow therapists and healers, and entrepreneurs.

She creates space with powerful listening of you already being whole and complete and to understand the stories that have shaped and stopped you, tend to what needs healing, and discover new possibilities for how you want to create and live your life going forward.

Drawing from Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychodrama, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and experiential and body-based approaches, Maria brings depth, curiosity, and creativity to the therapeutic relationship.

The language of blooming is deeply woven into Maria’s own story. Raised on her family’s historic Southern California flower farm, she grew up surrounded by the rhythms of planting, tending, and becoming. Integral Bloom grew from those roots and from her enduring commitment to helping people create lives grounded in Values, Intention, and Purpose - what she calls living a VIP life.

Maria believes we do not have to have everything figured out before we begin anything - and especially not therapy.

We begin where we are. We tend to what is in the here and now. And, in time and with care, we grow and bloom.