Cacky Mellor, Ph.D.

Dr. Cacky is Visiting Assistant Professor at Lesley University’s Mental Health & Wellbeing department and has a remote somatic private practice, Somatic Reclamation, working with individuals. She has spent the past 15+ years studying the power of words on the body, mind, soul, and community.
 
In undergrad, Dr. Cacky studied art therapy and holistic psychology at Lesley University. After which she received her Masters of Education in art-based activism and social entrepreneurship from Lesley’s Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dr. Cacky was awarded the Peter A. Levine Research Award in Dissertation Leadership by Somatic Experiencing International in 2022 for her dissertation, “Somatic Reclamation: Exploring the Lived Experience of Words”.
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Dr. Cacky has cultivated a diverse somatic toolkit to support clients on their healing journey. She is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Somatic Experiencing© Practitioner, and Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Practitioner (DARe). Additionally, she is an experienced Reiki Master practitioner, RYT-500, and has done training in energy work, embodied social justice, EFT, NLP, and somatic attachment therapy. She is also a non-denominational reverend. Dr. Cacky draws from her eclectic background to meet the unique needs and goals of each person she works with.
 
Dr. Cacky’s current scholarship is centered around the internalization of language, narrative, and trauma on a somatic level and how it affects relationship and social agency. She is an advocate for the importance of arts based and somatically informed research. Dr. Cacky is deeply passionate about social justice, the arts, intergenerational trauma, and somatics.
 
She lives in the Boston area with her beloved partner and cat.