Greetings! I'm Melissa, an ICF-trained leadership coach and shamanic healing practitioner. I help people reconnect with themselves, navigate life's transitions, and live and lead with greater authenticity, courage, and purpose.

Before beginning this work, I spent more than 20 years in higher education, equity, and corporate learning and development, serving organizations across both the public and private sectors. I always enjoyed supporting people's growth, but it wasn't until I experienced coaching and shamanic healing as a client in 2017 that I felt truly called to study, practice and share the power of this transformational work.

Like many of the people I work with today, I reached a point where the life I'd carefully built no longer felt aligned. From the outside, I had achieved success. On the inside, I felt restless, disconnected and unfulfilled. Quiet whispers of "Is this really it??" gradually became impossible to ignore.

Answering those whispers required profound change. I left a 20-year partnership, stepped away from a career I'd spent decades building, and began creating a life that felt more deeply aligned with who I truly was. It was one of the hardest seasons of my life, but also one of the most transformative. Looking back, I see it not as losing everything, but rather as a deep and rich remembering—a coming home to myself that is priceless.

Today, my work weaves together everything I've learned through leadership, organizational development, coaching, spiritual practice, and my own lived experience of transformation. I believe meaningful change happens when we honor both practical action and deep inner work—when we create space for insight, healing, and courageous choices that bring us into greater alignment with who we are becoming.

It is a privilege to walk alongside people as they reconnect with their inner wisdom, awaken their unique gifts, and create lives that feel deeply aligned with who they are. I believe the answers we seek are already within us. Sometimes we simply need someone to help us remember.