Michelle Meadows, MS, MT-BC, RYT, Post-Master’s Fellow

My work as a therapist is grounded in the belief that healing happens through compassion, connection, creativity, and coming back home to the body. I primarily use somatic, embodied, and bottom-up approaches to support trauma healing and a wide range of emotional and physical symptom presentations. Rather than viewing distress through a pathologizing lens, I see symptoms as meaningful responses shaped by lived experience—and as doorways toward deeper understanding and healing.

I work largely from an Internal Family Systems (IFS) perspective, with a strong focus on inner child healing, reparenting, and helping clients access their innate capacity for Self-leadership. While I integrate top-down insight when it’s supportive, my approach emphasizes nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and experiential healing. As a board-certified music therapist, I also deeply value creative expression as an essential part of the human experience and a powerful avenue for emotional processing, integration, and repair.

I am trained in Brainspotting, Foundations of Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and will begin EMDR training in the spring. I am also a registered yoga teacher and believe that somatic awareness, mindfulness, meditation, and creative practices are crucial components of trauma healing and in discovering the Self as described in IFS.

My intention is to offer a space where you are met as a whole human being—one where healing unfolds at your own pace through self-compassion, curiosity, and respect for the wisdom of your system.

Education:

Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Grand Canyon University

Music Therapy Board Certification through the University of Iowa

Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts / Performing Arts from the University of Northern Iowa

Experience:

5 years of experience working as a board-certified music therapist in hospice and St. Paul Public Schools, 1 yr internship experience working with kids and adolescents at Relate Counseling Center in Minnetonka.

Board-Certified Music Therapist, Yoga Teacher, MBSR & ART Practitioner