Melanie Ripple is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She has worked with children in a residential treatment center, served as a crisis counselor, and has experience providing individual counseling to child, teen, and adult survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Melanie uses bottom-up interventions to help her clients improve their quality of life and their relationships with themselves and others. She works with trauma, depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, dissociative issues, life transitions, attachment, relationship issues, and more. She uses a trauma-informed approach and has a background in Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI). Other modalities she utilizes most include cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, problem solving therapy, mindfulness practices, and play-based interventions.
With a background in exercise physiology and nutrition and experience with autoimmune issues herself, Melanie is passionate about holistic approaches to healing that account for physical, emotional, environmental, and social components of health.
After receiving her Master of Social Work from University of Southern California, Melanie obtained her LMSW and is now pursuing licensures to be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and a registered play therapist (RPT).
When not at Samaritan Center, Melanie teaches dance at a local studio and enjoys reading and spending time with her dog.
Melanie Ripple, LMSW is supervised by Kamini Verma, LCSW-S, RPT-S.