Melissa Spaulding

Melissa Spaulding is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC) based in St. George, Utah. As an EMDR Consultant in Utah, Melissa is the founder of Guided Wellness Counseling — a women’s therapy practice dedicated to helping high-functioning women move beyond symptom management and into deep, root-level healing from anxiety, trauma, and depression.

Melissa holds a Master of Arts from Ball State University and has been practicing EMDR since completing her basic training in 2012. Her clinical experience spans a wide range of settings, including residential treatment, wilderness therapy, community mental health, and private practice — giving her a broad and grounded perspective on the diverse and complex ways trauma shows up across women’s lives.
Her clinical specialties reflect her passion for women’s mental and emotional health: complex trauma and PTSD, perinatal and postpartum concerns, chronic pain and medical trauma, and anxiety and panic. Melissa approaches healing as a head, heart, and body process — a philosophy that runs throughout her clinical work and her deep appreciation for what makes EMDR uniquely powerful. She particularly values how EMDR invites clients to show up cognitively, emotionally, and somatically, creating space for the kind of freedom that talk therapy alone rarely reaches.

At Guided Wellness Counseling, Melissa has built a modern, trauma-informed practice where nothing is too heavy to bring into the room — a space where women who look “fine” on the outside finally have room to tell the full truth and heal from the inside out.

As an EMDR Consultant in Utah, Melissa brings that same warmth, directness, and clinical depth to her consultation work — helping therapists build confidence, make mistakes without shame, and develop their own authentic EMDR practice.