Michael Gerard Mele, LICSW, MSW, CST
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Photographer

email - MGM1102@aol.com
1631 NE Broadway #417
Portland, OR 97232
Phone (360) 298-0600

Michael Gerard Mele is a Guidance Counselor and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He has been in Private, Group, Institutional and Agency practice for nearly 20 years. He has held GLBT as well as traditional family practices in Florida, Washington State and Portland. He is a Certified Sex Therapist and has specialized in the areas of Trauma, Grief, Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence counseling. He utilizes Artistic and Mindfulness based approaches; Contemplative Photography, Writing, Poetry, Journaling, Music, Meditation and many other healing processes to help guide and heal himself, his clients as well as family and communal systems. Michael is a member of the Portland Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Collective, and is currently working as an International Domestic Violence Advocate with a local non-profit agency. Michael has produced an audio and visual meditation DVD with his personal contemplative photography and created a mindfulness group practice for “at-risk youth” to help them process through and deal with the difficult emotions and circumstances associated with substance abusing and domestically violent family systems. This process is titled, “A Peaceful Start” and has been utilized in regional school guidance systems. Michael welcomes individual and family therapeutic sittings in his private practice to help all discover the “Wellness Within.”