Transformational Coaching for Developmental Trauma
Cultivating Joy, Connection, and Aliveness
in Troubled Times
Why Melissa Knight Taylor?
Nothing Else Has Worked
Many of my clients have been on an endless march of therapy and self-improvement. They fall somewhere on the continuum between desiring change or acceptance and hopeless resignation. They’ve done so much work, developed so much capacity, and yet…there’s a deeper level of wholeness and joy that evades them.
NARM Approach
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is a powerful process that allows us to address the obstacles that get in the way of moving toward what we most want for ourselves. These obstacles stem from the ways we had to adapt to our early lives. NARM offers elegant interventions that support transformation that is intentionally NOT overwhelming.
Deep Acceptance AND Desire for Change
I will help you grow your capacity to hold the complexity of deeply accepting where you are AND allowing yourself to dream of new possibilities. This is high level capacity that will radically change the way you relate to yourself, your personal and professional relationships, and life itself.
Life is Calling You
Life is calling you to bring your whole and magnificent self to this precious moment. It is only from this wholeness, this aliveness, that we can transform the worlds we inhabit. With a spirit of earnest play, may we dream and create futures that support all of us to thrive. Join me on this epic journey toward what could be!
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 Clients Are Saying…
I am deeply deeply grateful for our work together. Looking back to this time two years ago feels…so damn long ago, feels unrecognizable in all the best ways. I find myself freer, lighter, happier, more skilled and more confident. I find myself myself for the first time in ages (and in some ways, ever). I want to honor and thank you for your support of the past 2 years. Without our work, I’m not here. My relationships, old and new, are nowhere near as healthy and mutual. I wouldn't have any idea what the hell I want for myself.
Brian
My time working with Melissa has been nothing short of life-changing. For the past 20 years I have been battling chronic pain and a host of other health issues that lead to a breakdown leaving me severely compromised, unable to do many of the things that bring me joy. In a short time Melissa was skillfully able to help me find out what was getting in the way of my healing. Melissa was a perfect guide in diving deep into my past and childhood traumas and gently connecting them with present moment problems and situations. Shortly after beginning to work with her I started to feel noticeably calmer and with less pain. Melissa provided me with the path and tools to navigate my current emotional states with more ease and balance. Currently, I am back to an active lifestyle as a Mother, musician and surfer. Melissa Taylor and NARM were the key missing pieces to my healing puzzle.
Alyssa
There is a before and after Melissa. Before my work with Melissa, my life
was often run by a relentless inner critic who didn’t miss a beat to tell me
how everything was my fault and I didn’t have any value. Guilt, shame and
numbness were part of my soma and emotional bodies. After Melissa, there is
a lot more softness, acceptance and an ease that allows me to breathe and
connect to my feelings more deeply, with less judgement and more self-love.
The transformation has been significant in how I relate to myself and how I
relate to those around me. I have a much deeper capacity to be present to myself.
Miryam
The work Melissa and I did together was profoundly transformative, absolutely necessary, and foundational for my growth to further. Together, Melissa and I worked on authenticity and the boundaries to love others and myself well. Her support, faith in me, and willingness to ask the hard questions, was essential for me to develop trust in my intuition, my sense of knowing, and awareness of my own need. In every interaction, when I felt shame, I was met with joy, a true sense of her being glad to be with me in my hardest times. She believed in me and helped me to believe in myself in the circumstances I was in. I am stronger, more authentic, and aware of what I need because of our work together. And she is genuinely a complete delight to work with!
Angelina
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
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
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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DISCLAIMER: The results discussed on this page and videos are our personal results and in some cases, the results of previous or existing clients. Please understand these results are not typical. We are not implying you’ll duplicate them (or do anything for that matter). The average person who watches “how to” information videos or books calls get little to no results. We’re using these references for example purposes only to show what’s possible. Your results will vary and depend on many factors including but not limited to your background, experience, and work ethic.
