About Us

Antoinette Fisher provides administrative support to the Enchantment Counseling team. As a seasoned professional with more than 15 years of client hospitality, she has developed a strong sense of devotion to serving others. She believes our clients come first and is ready and willing to go above and beyond for anyone who needs her help. She effortlessly connects with those around her and enjoys being a part of a team.

My name is April S. Perkins (Lewis). I graduated from New Mexico State University in December 2007, with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and a Minor in Child and Educational Psychology. I graduated with Honors, as a Crimson Scholar, with a 3.5 GPA, or above. I graduated from New Mexico State University in May 2011, with a Masters Degree in Family and Consumer Science with a Minor in Alcohol and Other Drugs. I have been Independently Licensed in the State of New Mexico,as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), since December 2014. I am also a Licensed Substance Abuse Associate (LSAA), and am in the process of becoming a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC). I am also in the process of becoming a Supervisor. I adhere to Brief Solution Focused Therapy,with all my Clients. If a different modality is more appropriate, I use the more appropriate modality. I have worked in Outpatient, Residential Treatment Care, Day Treatment, an In Patient Hospital, Hospital, school, Juvenile Detention Center, and online settings. I have experience with Clients suffering from Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), grief and loss, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), drug and alcohol addiction, Personality Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), and Bipolar Clients. I also have experience with Clients who have suffered from grief and loss, were focusing on communication skills, children in CYFD Custody, children who were adopted, Religious Clients, EAP Clients, and Client suffering from gambling addiction and sex addiction. I have experience with Individual, family, group, and couples therapy

Rev. Dr. Melinda Pillsbury Arnold is an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, choreographer, and change agent recognized for the lectures and workshops she has presented internationally for the past twenty-five years to promote wholeness and peace. Dr. Arnold specializes in Solution Focused therapy in healing trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the separations among individuals and nations that produce conflict and war. An acknowledged innovator in the treatment of trauma, Dr. Arnold and colleagues have introduced bills to the New Mexico state legislature advocating PTSD treatment programs for women veterans of the Iraq War and for first responders and their families. At Enchantment Counsleing LLC, Dr. Arnold helps clients recover from trauma by recognizing and transforming ancestral patterns of violence that may be affecting them and others.

With a doctorate in ministry, as well as a master’s degree in transformational counseling and PH.D. studies in depth psychology, world religion, mythology, and cultural anthropology

She has studied with prominent scholars such as James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, Jean Houston, ecofeminist Susan Griffin, Matthew Fox, Andrew Harvey, Caroline Myss.   Intensive travels throughout the Middle East inform both her humanitarian efforts and therapeutic practice. Dr. Melinda Arnold, known as Merlinda, served as The New Seminary’s American representative in Israel during the Antifadah of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Additionally, she has led women’s groups in Egypt, Greece, and Crete, as well as throughout Europe and the Americas, to explore ancient feminine mystery rites. Her art and dance workshop program, “The Mystery Quest,” uses as a therapeutic tool a replica of the Phaestos disk from Crete dating to 175O BCE.  She has been a licensed psychotherapist.

Her sole proprietorship Sacred Way, blends contemporary psychology and ancient wisdom. Dr. Arnold produces projects such as “Breakthrough,” a multimedia dance and film celebration of nature’s grandeur and cyclical rhythms. Her video “Dancing on the Milky Way” was featured at the 2006 New Mexico Film Guild Festival.

She has been an improvisational dance instructor as well as produced healing dance workshops for PTSD and Trauma called The Dance of Ishtar and The Mystery Quest. She created her own healing modality from Egyptian manuscripts written by the renowned clairvoyant and mystic Omm Sety (which she has had in her possession for over 20 years) called the Ancestry SaRa Technique.