Healing the hard stuff through a creative, trauma-sensitive process

Therapy for Endings

Firefly Rising Therapy blends affirming trauma-informed, narrative, and somatic therapy to help you through the endings and new beginnings in life.

Grief doesn’t only live in death. It lives in breakups, identities you’ve outgrown, versions of yourself you had to leave behind, relationships that changed, and dreams that didn’t come true. A lot of people don’t even realize they’re grieving. They just know something hurts, feels stuck, or no longer makes sense. I work with people who are in that in-between, liminal, space: when something has ended, but the next chapter hasn’t fully revealed itself yet.

In my work, grief isn’t something to rush through or fix. It’s something to listen to, honor, move with, and feel in the body, without shame and without timelines. Together, we make space for the anger, the sadness, the confusion, the numbness, the relief, and even the possibility that lives on the other side of loss.

You don’t have to “do it right.”

I support clients in moving through hard life transitions with gentleness, curiosity, humor, and deep respect for their nervous system and their story. My role is not to tell you who to be or how to heal, but to walk beside you as you rediscover your voice, your truth, and a new beginning that actually belongs to you.

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new beginnings...

Meet Dre

Hi! I'm Dre Meller [they/them], AMFT #148962

I am so glad you are here!

I am a late-diagnosed AuDHDer, double Scorpio, Pisces Moon, artist, disruptor with crone energy that loves to swear. Sometimes in session we laugh together and sometimes we cry together. I appreciate holding space for you in a non-judgmental way so you can work through this adventure we call life.
I have been through a lot of hard things in life and it's an honor being a part of your healing journey, because I know first-hand how meaningful it is to have someone sit with you while you work things out. The most important thing for me as a therapist is to respect you as the expert in your life and collaborate WITH you.

Identities I Work With...

• Neurodivergence

• Queer and Trans folx

• Activists and Solutionaries

• Recovering Perfectionists

• Business Owners and Artists

• Eclectic weirdos

• Quirky people who see the world differently

• Those who are not afraid to call bullshit on this fucked up capitalist and oppressive system.

• Kinky and BDSM Communities

• ENM (Ethical Non Monogamy) and Polycules

Modalities I use...

• Narrative - the problem is the problem

• Somatic - your body matters and holds information

• Creative Expression - art is a language

• IFS - there are no bad parts of you

• CRM (comprehensive resource modeling), Brainspotting, EMDR - helping you heal from recent or historic trauma

• EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), Gottman, and Discernment - relational therapy

• Attachment Based - our attachments matter

Trauma Healing

Specialized therapy sessions designed to help you process and heal from childhood or more recent trauma.

Individual Therapy

Affirming therapy for folx who are going through a transitional period and want to explore what is next with confidence.

Therapy for couples, polycules, families, friends, or roommates who want to explore communication and the status of the relationship.

Relational Therapy

Grief Therapy

Whether you are grieving the death of someone you love or grieving what was and is no longer, I am here to help you grieve through creative and expressive therapy.

Reach out if you'd like to work together