Trauma-Informed Practice Group
for Coaches
Creating the Optimal Conditions
for Development
Trauma-Informed Practice Group
Learn how to...
Identify Trauma Patterns
Learn to recognize complex trauma dynamics in yourself and clients. Receive expert and peer support in identifying key patterns, especially the impact of past experiences on the present behaviors and capacities. Accurately assess when to refer to a therapist.
Protect Your Own Energy as a Practitioner
How do your clients’ survival strategies impact you and your capacity to be with them? Learn how to support yourself when your own patterns are activated by clients’ behaviors, emotions or patterns of dysregulation.
Create More Safety and Capacity in your Sessions
I will help you bring a trauma-informed perspective to your unique style of coaching. Develop the awareness of pacing and capacity. Workshop practices, reflections, and languaging that do no harm. Learn how to avoid re-traumatizing clients and/or colluding with their strategies.
Grow with a Supportive Community
Bring your challenging client cases for exploration and guidance. Deepen your presence and creativity for in-the-moment reflections and observations of your own and peers’ clients. Experience real-time shifts in your own healing and development.
The Next Cohort
6 SESSIONS over 12 WEEKS
(9 hours total)
Limited to 6 PARTICIPANTS
INVESTMENT: $1450
BEGINS: Tuesday, Sept. 23rd, 2025
TIME: 1:00pm-2:30pm Pacific Time
Requirements
– No trauma training required.
– This group is for you if you have an active coaching practice and current clients to discuss.
About Melissa
Melissa Knight Taylor is a transformational coach who specializes in supporting clients to heal complex trauma and live a life they love. She works with coaches and therapists to deepen their understanding of clients’ survival patterns and explore countertransference dynamics. Melissa is a Master Practitioner of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) and trained in Somatic Experiencing® at the advanced level. She has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a BA in Organizational Communication.
What People Are Saying…
Working with Melissa has significantly increased my capacity to recognize
and be with my clients' trauma. In the past, I might have stayed for a
minute with their discomfort and pain. But since I had not worked on my on
freeze, I had no capacity to being fully present to, welcome, and invite the
client’s emotions, not really! Hence, I colluded with the client’s
strategies, often by going into their heads or by-passing their emotions by
inviting centering before being with. Now, with a much deeper capacity to
being present to myself, I can be with whatever emotions arise in the moment
no matter what the narrative is. Clients feel more seen and held by me and
speak of a stronger knowing and connection to themselves, a sense of being
from which to creatively respond to their challenges.
Miryam
Rarely does insight, connection, depth, the ability to work across multiple domains and in the moment agility meld into a beautiful coaching experience. Melissa creates that exquisite container in which transformation becomes possible.
Not only is she a skilled integral coach, she is a deeply intuitive NARM practitioner.
Melissa's intellectual curiosity, passion for service and innate abilities to hold others makes working with her an exceptional experience. She is fearless!
As an executive coach, leadership developer and accelerated learning trainer of over 40 years, I have rarely met talent and ability like Melissa's.
Annette
I have been a professional, developmental, career and life coach myself for 15 years, and in my experience Melissa is a very capable coach and trauma informed NARM practitioner.
Among the many aspects of the quality of attention and way of being that I appreciate and value in her, perhaps the most important for me personally is her broad understanding and ability to relate to me across a wide variety of contexts: from working with emotions, to exploring the history of human thought, to relating to the body and physical world, to rational business thinking, to meditation and spirituality.
In selecting a coach, I want someone who not only can go with me into each of these, but who also has the dynamic in-the-moment intelligence to explore interconnections between them with me. Melissa is such a person, and to an extent that I rarely experience.
Jesse
If you are serious about making changes and becoming fully alive, there is no better coach than Melissa to guide you. Get ready to reconnect with yourself and with your life in new and generative ways.
Robin
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