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What I do and who I help

Hi! My name’s Melyssa and I’m a health and wellness coach. This means I offer information and motivation to people who want to make changes to their lifestyle and food choices in order to reduce their symptoms and improve their quality of life.

Who I help

If you’re:

  • Tired of being told by your medical doctor that you’re healthy, your symptoms are normal and you’re just a hypochondriac
  • Not well-served by the conventional medical model
  • Wanting to be responsible for your own health decisions rather than being told what to do by an expert
  • Willing to expend time, money and energy to embrace a countercultural approach to wellness
  • Wanting to learn how to use alternative methods to support your health

Then you may enjoy working with me.

My philosophy

Holistic

My perspective is holistic; that is, it acknowledges that healing is an interconnected process involvong the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental and relational aspects of human existance.

Physically speaking, the body is a complex interwoven network. Symptoms create a profile of an interconnected whole, rather than pieces and parts that need to be solved individually, irrespective of each other.

Natural

I prefer noninvasive, approaches that align with and gently restore the body’s own healing process. This means I see symptoms as messages and course-correction responses, not indicators that the body is deranged and broken.

I embrace a root-cause approach that harmonizes with functional, integrative, naturopathic, energy and homeopathic medicine.

Lyme-literate

As a Lyme survivor, I have a complex understanding of the diseases processes created by hidden chronic infections and environmental toxins.

Trauma-aware

Illness can create trauma. Trauma can create illness. Sometimes, it’s necessary to address trauma before a person can regain their health autonomy.

Highly sensitive, intuitive, gifted or empathic individuals are particularly suspeptible to trauma when their needs aren’t aknowledged or understood.

My qualifications

My lived experience provides the bedrock for my coaching practice. Training and certification isn’t legally necessary to become a coach. I am not certified as of yet, but am enrolled or have taken in several training courses focused on various healing modalities, including

  • Mitochondrial Mastery (Justine Stenger, nutritionist, functional health coach)
  • Functional Genomics Analysis (Bob Miller, CTN, researcher)
  • Various courses on symptom management with homeopathy

My perspective and practice is also shaped by books, presentations, articles and other training materials by professionals who work within the chronic complex illness recovery space, including