Mel has been building and facilitating community cultural events and interactions for 20 years.

Witnessing first hand the transformative power of creativity and expression, Mel is passionate about inspiring and nurturing an individuals ability to trust themselves and explore their own expressive style.

Mel delivers welcoming spaces, playful events and supportive, educational environments striving to make social change through the positive impact on the individual.  

At the heart of Mel’s belief is that creativity is necessary to an individual's wellbeing and the individual is necessary to community wellbeing.

Melanie is a registered Creative Arts Therapist And Somatic Experiencing Practitioner working with private clients and those referred through NDIS and more. Melanie provides one on one sessions, group and corporate workshops as both a Somatic Arts Therapist and Creative Mentor.

Melanie is also a certified Seasons for Growth grief companion offering art therapy and legacy artwork for people in their final transition, and their families. As a certified Deathwalker, Melanie companions those in their final transition and their loved ones through this precious and tender experience.

Melanie has been informed and experienced healing through engagement with psychedelic medicine and our more than human world. Mel supports embodied preparation and integration with psychedelic medicines.

Mel’s passion is to further develop spaces, ideas and productions to explore the potential of arts based expression, community engaged practice and positive social change.

Please visit Mel at EVER TENDER for more information regarding therapeutic work including somatic experiencing, creative mentoring , creative arts therapy and psychedelic integration.

Experienced in event management and production, cultural development, facilitation and coaching, Mel’s inspired concepts are grounded in her personal art making practice which includes writing, tattooing, sculpture and visual art.