Meet the Founder
Melissa Vrouvides is a community organizer, women’s group facilitator, and the founder of Aphrodite Health, a women’s community-centred initiative based in Montréal. Her work is rooted in devotion to women’s healing—returning to the body, our cyclical nature, and honoring the many seasons and transitions that shape the female journey.
With training in somatic and nervous system–based approaches within the field of psychedelic-assisted therapies, Melissa’s work weaves together relational healing, creative expression, and depth-oriented inquiry into the psyche. She is deeply interested in how the mind, body, and spirit intersect in women’s lived experience, and how community can become the vessel that holds that exploration.
Like a honeybee, she moves between circles, cross-pollinating spaces of reciprocity, creativity, and care.
Melissa’s vision for Aphrodite Health is to create living, breathing, multigenerational spaces where women can gather honestly, learn from one another, and reconnect to the intelligence of the female body.
To learn more about Melissa's background and trainings, visit the Psychedelic Support page.
Melissa Vrouvides
Community Organizer
Women's Group Facilitator
Our Volunteers
We are grateful for the women who generously share their time, skills, and creativity with our community.
If you are interested in volunteering and sharing your gifts with our community, please reach out at info@aphroditehealth.co
Aphrodite's Roots
How It Began
Growing up, my grandmother's house was the hub where family and friends gathered from near and far. Her dining room table was the container that held everything — celebration, food, secrets, and stories. What was so beautiful about my Yiayia was how she welcomed everyone as they were. But behind her warmth was a deeper pain, shaped by a time and culture where trauma was normalized, and healing rarely spoken of. In her final years, I witnessed the weight of those untold stories, and it was heart wrenching to witness.
Through Aphrodite Health, my intention is to honour her spirit –– her authenticity, the comforting elements of my Greek culture, and the quiet sacrifice of her life — by creating spaces that are a conscious reflection of my dear Yiayia's dining room table.
Aphrodite Health symbolizes a continuation of a legacy, a weaving of old and new, a remembrance of those who came before us, and grief for what was lost and never will be. It's a stride toward liberating ourselves from generational patterns and cultivating new ways of being, anchored in truth, courage, and embodiment.
With love,
Melissa
Afroditi Klimis
1928 - 2023