Chloe Mellinger, LCSW
Owner and Therapist
Where healing doesn't require becoming someone else
Therapy That Works the way your brain works
Hi, I am Chloe Mellinger, LCSW - a licensed therapist in Pennsylvania and the founder of Everwild Therapy Co. I work with people who have always felt a little outside the norm, and I wouldn't have it any other way.My clients are neurodivergent adults, LGBTQIA+ folks, people in recovery, and anyone who's ever sat across from a therapist and thought "this person doesn't quite get it". Many of them are navigating late ADHD diagnoses, figuring out their identity, navigating trauma, or rebuilding their body after bariatric surgery. Some are carrying all of the above, all at once.I work in a way that's conversational, collaborative, and genuinely warm - because I believe the relationship between therapist and client is the foundation everything else is built on. Depending on what you need, I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI). I am also trained in multiple trauma-informed approaches, including EMDR, Hakomi, and parts work. In plain terms: I meet you where you are, I don't do cookie-cutter, and I won't ask you to fit yourself into a framework that was never built for a brain like yours.I bring a personal familiarity to a lot of what my clients are navigating - which means you won't have to spend your sessions educating me. I know what it's like to have a brain that doesn't follow the script, and I know what it's like when the medical system asks you to shrink yourself to fit its forms. That shapes the way I show up in the therapy space.If you've been waiting for a therapist who will actually get it - I'd love to meet you. I offer free 15-minute consultations. No pressure, no intake paperwork before we've even spoken - just a conversation.
Specialities
You don't have to explain yourself here - I work with people who have felt unseen, misunderstood, or pathologized by the systems meant to help them.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care - Gender identity, sexual orientation, coming out, transition, minority stress, relationships - with a therapist that is genuinely affirming, not just checkboxing it
Trauma and PTSD - complex trauma, medical trauma, and PTSD - using evidence-based approaches including EMDR and trauma-informed ACT, at a pace that is actually yours
Substance use & Recovery - addiction, harm reduction, and the complicated relationship between substance use and underlying trauma, neurodivergence, or identity. No shame.
Depression and Anxiety - For when the weight of it has become too familiar. Especially the kind of depression and anxiety that lives underneath a diagnosis, an identity, or a life that's felt hard to navigate
Bariatric Surgery Support - pre and post-op emotional support, body image, identity shifts, relationship with food, and the parts of the bariatric journey that surgical programs that don't prepare you for - from someone who gets it personally
ADHD and Autism in Adults - Whether you were diagnosed last year or last month, or you're still figuring out what the label means - therapy that actually accounts for how your brain is wired
Contact
Everwild Therapy Co. provides telehealth therapy throughout Pennsylvania. Currently accepting new clients and paneled with major insurers through Headway. Self-pay and sliding scale available.