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What women say:

  • &ldquoI feel so heard and held by Melissa's acceptance and clarity. She always has just the right exercise or reflection that guides me to my own intuition and authenticity. She's been invaluable in helping me uncover the path I will walk in this next phase of my life.&rdquo
    ~ Basha Brownstein, MSW

  • &ldquoYou can deeply trust Melissa as a powerfully skilled and compassionate guide for opening to new life.&rdquo
    ~ Dr. Jeanne Achterberg, Past President, Association for Transpersonal Psychology

  • &ldquoMelissa is a compassionate and marvelously creative psychotherapist and coach. Her warmth, humor, and wisdom have a deep transformative impact on everyone she works with. I'd trust her with my soul.&rdquo
    ~ Barbara Fischer, MSW

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Coaching and Psychotherapy

Coaching and Psychotherapy
Does this sound like you?

  • It's been a looong time since I felt like I was really thriving

  • I'm so used to putting everybody and everything else first. I'm wondering now, What about me?

  • Even though I know I should be taking better care of myself, I can't seem to find the time or energy

  • I want to feel better, but I don't know where to start. I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it

  • I've tried "spot treatments" (chocolate, vacations, workshops, self-help books) to feel better, but all I get is a temporary lift


If so, you've come to the right place, sister.

Coaching or psychotherapy with me (often a skillful combination of both) can help you learn to cherish yourself, revitalize your relationships, and give you that new sweet lease on life that you're so yearning for.

I've come to trust myself and my own guidance more than I ever have. Melissa is a wise, playful genius at asking questions that help me find my own right answers. ~Trudy Grayson

What can I offer you as your life coach or psychotherapist?

My unique combination of well-seasoned skills and experience from 25 years as both a psychotherapist and a life coach.

This means I offer you the best of both professions: my ability to compassionately dive as deep as you need to go into scary places, and my pragmatic, forward-moving skills as a life coach.

Coaching or psychotherapy with me will help you:

  • experience the deep joy of finding yourself, once again or for the first time
  • release struggle and "trying harder," and live with ease and grace
  • dream new dreams, or reclaim long-buried ones
  • break through damaging lies about growing older that limit your aliveness, freedom, and unique genius
  • release patterns and beliefs that don't support your best life
  • create a life that sings for you, drawn from that well of creativity and wisdom inside you (and I promise it's there!)

I've never felt so deeply listened to, and heard, in my whole life. Someone said once that being listened to is the closest thing we know to being loved. I understood that working with Melissa.  ~ Gail Bernank, RN

Ready to flourish?

I offer a complimentary 20 minute conversation so we can see how we fit.

If you're interested, please email or call me at (206) 427-1325. I'd love to talk with you about supporting you in this possibility-rich time of your life!