about
My work is about guiding you to revitalize your innate magic and recognize your gifts as potent medicine for the world. We explore pathways and perspectives, drawing upon coaching itself as a wisdom tradition that honors the insight within you. I serve as a guide through the seen and unseen layers of life, presenting spirit-led wisdom and offering transformative questions — so that you uncover your inner authority and live from the inside-out, with sovereignty, agency, and in flow with your truth.
The next step towards insight and expansion is within you. I am simply a channel and a guide.
The next step towards insight and expansion is within you.
I am simply a channel and a guide.
hey there, i am melissa, aN ANIMIST, A wisdom traditions alchemist + wayfinder coach
Unfolding onto my path has meant being shaped by questions and experiences that became initiations — intensive shamanic training, coming undone, shifting perspectives, + an ever-deepening awareness and expansion.
Steeped in my ancestral medicine, I bring this forth to you from the currents of twenty-five years in the healing arts & life as a human with a shamanic lens and looking glass.
I am also known as mother and partner, adventurer, ocean lover, forest lover, animal lover, alchemist, coach, beholder of light and shadow, conduit of magic, seer, seed sower, shamanic healer, truth speaker, medicine woman, mystic... the titles continue to present.
I delight in teaching you how to channel your inner truth and magic, which goes by so many names— and how to access the subtle realms where your creativity dwells. With experiential tools like guided journeys, mind rooms, and crossroads questions, we partner as you unburden what limits you and become what you desire.
I particularly enjoy identifying patterns that bind, acting like programming— and helping to invoke awareness that supports the release of what no longer serves you.
I consider it an honor to work in this way.
My job is applying curiosity and being the sacred witness + holding safe & sacred space + tracking your process. The rest is an unfolding, and also a little like surfing the currents of what comes. There is something incredibly magical about being partnered with and tracked as you explore.
Good coaching and good shamanic healing require
excellent tracking and
space holding.
I'm here for it.
Our clients are seekers of new awareness and growthful shifts. They’re willing to lean into imaginative agility, expanding their landscape of what’s possible. They welcome experiential exploration and evolving perspectives. They’re looking for more clarity and inspiration in life, and they want their discoveries and insights to weave into daily life.
Our clients
Years of bodywork training & practice nurtured this path within me. The healing skills of Reiki, Chakra, and Pranic Energy that I studied along the way all show up within my sessions. Three years of studying Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture as well as Japanese styles at The New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) also flow through my clinical voice. In the time following, I found my way to learning from the most capable and knowledgeable of shamanic and magical teachers. I am fortunate to have studied "The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation" with Julie M. Kramer. I found myself immersed in the boundless wellspring of wisdom that is Betsy Bergstrom, honing skills of Mediumship, Curse and Thought-Form Unraveling, Compassionate Depossession, working more extensively with Energy Hygiene, and awakening to the magic of seidr and the Nordic mysteries in "Völva, Vala, Norn" studies. I delved into the marvels and practical sagacity of Trolldom, Swedish Folk Medicine and Nordic Spirituality with Johannes Gårdbäck. In more recent years, I've had the privilege of being honed by the teachings of Martha Beck, through her transformative Wayfinder Life Coach program.
My approach as a student is always to find the resonant truths within the teaching and track them as they weave into wisdom and inspire my growth. I do feel that teachers are not gurus and can appreciate and have gratitude for what each has to offer that sparks the light within me.
The depths of my gratitude for my teachers along this path.
The intensive cauldrons of our diverse learnings form who we are in the ever evolving moments of our lives.
~Pema Chödrön
"No matter what comes along, we’re always standing at the center of the world in the middle of sacred space, and everything that comes into that circle and exists with us there has come to teach us what we need to know. Our life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep."
favorite place
as close to the ocean as possible or deep in a forest
coffee ORDER
americano black
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Favorite Movie
Favorite instrument
currently listening to
currently in my pocket
the human voice, but also cello & drum, and tuning forks & singing bowls
Wardruna
my medicine pouch, some runes, & a rock
Guilty pleasure
fave plant
taco taco taco starts with t
trees, all of them & tulips
secret talent
knowing the second before a timer goes off
