My Approach

You are on your own unique spiritual journey—and I will meet you exactly where you are.

With compassion, curiosity, and without judgment, I offer deep, attentive listening.

I bring my full presence, trusting that the Divine lives not only within you, but between us.

My intention is to show up fully and honestly—as wholly Melissa.

Sometimes, life breaks us open.

A rupture comes—unexpected and devastating. Hopes and dreams for the life we imagined collapse,

and we can’t go back to the way things were.

I’ve known such a rupture. 

I was raised in faith and found early grounding in the Divine through tradition and community.

Later, yoga opened a deeper doorway for me—a felt sense of something greater than myself, alive in my body, breath,  and spirit. I served in two faith communities and pursued theological study at Candler School of Theology,  

alongside training in spiritual direction with Zeitgeist Atlanta. Yet what stayed with me most powerfully was

the experience of presence in the body.

So I returned there.

I became a certified yoga instructor—not to leave behind my learning, but to integrate it.

To hold both knowledge and Spirit within a body that listens.

And then the rupture came. Not just a rupture—the one that seemed beyond repair.

I had the tools: theological understanding, spiritual direction practices, emotional connection to the Divine.

But in the silence that followed the breaking, it was the tools of the body—movement, breath, surrender—

that gently gathered the fragments of me.

Yoga began the journey. Knowledge deepened it. Spirit guided it. And yoga encircled it all again.

I’ve learned this:

It is okay to grieve.

It is okay to let the heart break.

Sometimes the breaking reveals a brilliance within us we never knew was there.

Like a geode, cracked open—we are rough on the outside, but luminous at the core.

We break.

We mend.

We become something new.

I am new. I am changed. And I am whole.

I offer myself to walk beside you. To help you uncover the wisdom and tools already within you.

You are not broken. You are becoming.

I am here to be your companion—through spiritual growth, through grief, through transformation—

into your own wholeness and belonging in the Divine.