Melinda Ashley Meyer is a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and the Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Art and Communication (NIKUT). Ms Meyer is a Director of Psychodrama and is a trained bioenergetics-therapist. Since 1983 she has focused on the combination of community, group and individual psychotherapy. She worked as an Expressive art therapist in the US and Norway since 1981. From 1990 – 2004 she worked at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees with torture survivors and war refugees. Since 2008 she has been project leader for a controlled study with unaccompanied minor refugee boys between the age of 15 and 18 at NKVTS applying EXIT as an early intervention model. She is currently the Program Director for the Master degree in Expressive Arts, Conflict Transformation and Peace building at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

She has been giving lectures and workshops within the field of EXA, Psychodrama, trauma, conflict transformation and cross-cultural group work in Europe, Israel, East Europe, North, Central and South America. She has made two documentary films, written articles and participated in writing several books.