is this you?

 

 

• Are you on the verge of knowing there is something more fulfilling to this life than your current experience?
• Are you desiring more passion in your life and feeling frustrated because you are unclear about what your passionate about?
• Do you sometimes feel depressed and unengaged as your life feels, ‘meaningless’?
• Do you desire to explore and harness your innate creative power and genius?
• Do you desire to collaborate on a journey of self-actualization and empowerment?
• Are you committed to your personal growth and evolution?
• Do you have a burning desire to create in alignment with your deepest truth?
• Do you have yearning for personal freedom and to claim your authentic voice?
• Do you crave a path that celebrates adventure and is exploratory and unique?
• Are you committed to being fully accountable for your life experience and believe that you create your own reality?
• Are you wanting to collaborate with someone who is a passionate guide who celebrates your innate wisdom?
• Do you value your life experience and are willing to invest in yourself and your ultimate happiness?
• Are you committed to holding and keeping agreements?
• Do you feel lost as to what your divine life purpose is?

 

…Then I would love to work with you!

 

I am deeply inspired and committed to working with people who desire to create and manifest deep change and transformation in their lives and want to do it in a uniquely creative way that holds reverence for divine intelligence of the creative process as inner teacher.

Wherever you are on the creative continuum in a creative project, a relationship, a prosperous AND fulfilling business, a life of your design— I am here to inspire and support you in celebrating the evolution of your fullest expression of life with more fun, freedom, joy and prosperity.

 

my perspective.

 

Intuition is Queen. Structure is King. My own life and inquiry into the creative process has guided me through many life transitions. I function as both an intuitive guide and a facilitator specializing in transforming your passion and creativity into a joy-filled prosperous life.

I am fiercely passionate about inner freedom. When we are free to live fully expressing all of ourselves we are able to step into the totality of what life has to offer. To experience true freedom, one must have  structure– a personal road-map or compass that guides our intentions AND acts as a foundation for extension and flow.

 

creativity & intuition + authentic personal road map (structure) = freedom

my intention.

 

My promise to you is to support you in realizing your innate truth inner wisdom creative knowing, life purpose and clarity to move forward making changes with passion and confidence.

“When the voice and vision on the inside becomes more profound and more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside–you have mastered your life.”

-Dr. John Demarti

 

 

individual coaching programs.

For those craving a more passionate, purposeful and fulfilling life…

 

IGNITE YOUR LIFE. Discover your passion and life purpose and make it a reality. A customized coaching + painting immersion in the Fire Tree Method ™ for realizing possibilities for your best life expression and fulfillment.

May include…

• 1:1 sessions
• personal retreat days at the studio integrating coaching, creative exploration and visioning
• group coaching & intensives monthly coaching and accountability sessions
• weekly email support
• Fire Sessions – for when you need support in the moment!
• weekly painting classes and open studios
• painting intensives & retreats
• and more to give you the support, structure and guidance to step into your personal freedom

 

OR

 

• Are you a passionate entrepreneur who is on the edge of burn out, struggling in the execution of your vision?
• Are you frustrated…wanting to do business differently, with more soul, more freedom while living  prosperously AND making an impact?
• Are you yearning for more fun, creativity, freedom, clarity and therefore more personal power in your life experience?
• Do you aspire to master your relationship with money and self-worth, by claiming your authentic voice and value?
• Are you a soul based entrepreneur whose passion is also your purpose and yet you are struggling to manifest your vision into a reality?
• Are you currently a coach, therapist, teacher, healer or transformational facilitator who is tired of giving much and still living ‘soul to mouth’?

 

Envision living a passionate life, expressing work in the world that you love, having fun AND experiencing both emotional and financial freedom.  Imaging falling in love with your business with endless passion and time to focus on other areas of your life while your impact on the greater community continues to expand as you work less.  Gone are the days when doing what you love, or having a creative, soulful business is equated with self-sacrificing beliefs that passion and prosperity are unequal.

 

Imagine if you are a coach, therapist, teacher or healer the ability to leverage your impact on your clients lives by incorporating trust in the creative process and authentic self-expression into your offerings.  Your clients will have greater results in their own personal growth— increasing your own joy and prosperity. Click here for information on becoming a certified Fire Tree Method ™ Creative Catalyst and how this experiential certification will support you in growing your impact.

 

IGNITE YOUR BUSINESS. Transform your Passion into Prosperity. Creativity into Cash.  Art into Abundance. A customized coaching + painting immersion in the Fire Tree Method ™ for realizing possibilities for your best life expression and fulfillment.

May include…

• 1:1 sessions
• personal retreat days at the studio integrating coaching, creative exploration and visioning
• group coaching & intensives monthly coaching and accountability sessions
• weekly email support
• Fire Sessions – for when you need support in the moment!
• weekly painting classes and open studios
• painting intensives & retreats
• and more to give you the support, structure and guidance to step into your personal freedom

 

 

Which offering is right for me? To schedule a 20 minute complimentary consultation session or for further inquiry…

Please call 512.524.0687 or email melissa at firetreestudios.com.

 

personal retreats days.

 

FOR YOUR LIFE AND BUSINESS.  After years of offering weekly hourly coaching packages—I have found that sometimes the most fruitful experiences have been during focused intensives that create a momentum of passion and energy necessary for taking a quantum leap.  And that is what I love to do…support my clients in making monumental, life-altering change.   We do this by spending a half or full day together (in person or virtually),  followed by  a 3o minute check-in accountability session.

Ready for life altering, mind blowing change? Spend a private day with me as we pow-wow together in the studio and dive into co-creating lasting drastic transformation in your life… that best supports your evolutionary growth at this time. This laser like approach will give you access to the unlimited possibility you seek. Receive, the energy, perspective, tools and inspiration from me as we co-create a formula for you to embody a quantum shift. 10-5pm.

Together we will discover, accept and transcend the obstacles that are keeping you from manifesting the life experience that you so desire.  Uncover your life purpose and entrepreneurial vision that is in alignment with your deepest truth. We will partner together in this fantastic discovery is both a journey and results oriented when to you are committed to both insight and action.  Think of it as a customized retreat designed based on your unique needs.

• Full day from 10-5pm.
• 1/2 days
• In personal or virtual (via phone or Skype).
• *Includes a visioning multi-media journal, all tools, creative materials and an organic lunch catered at the studio. Fabulous for an individual or a partnership ready to create momentum to fuel big change.

 

This laser like approach will give you access to the unlimited possibilities you seek. Receive, the energy, perspective, tools and inspiration from me as we co-create a formula for you to embody a quantum shift.  Includes a visioning multi-media journal, all tools, creative materials and an organic lunch catered at the studio. Fabulous for an individual or a partnership ready to create momentum to fuel big change.

 

 

 

Which offering is right for me? To schedule a 20 minute complimentary consultation session or for further inquiry…

Please call 512.524.0687 or email melissa at firetreestudios.com.

 

what people are saying.

“When I began working with Melissa five months ago, I was battling several years’ worth of depression, unhappiness, grief, inertia, fear, and loss of self-esteem, following the loss of both my parents and my job as a successful digital marketing strategist. I was having difficulty gaining closure about my parents’ deaths. I was angry and resentful that my “glory days” were behind me, and I was unable to accept the possibility of new, positive opportunities (much less to explore or create them). I had no energy or motivation to do even pleasurable activities, such as designing and creating jewelry (which I also do professionally). I was simply stagnating without focus, direction, or optimism.

 

Melissa and I met roughly fifteen years ago, when we worked together at an interactive agency, and have been dear friends ever since. However, we had been out of touch for quite a while, and when we reconnected a year ago we both shared the dramatic changes in our lives since that last time we had chatted. I was totally awed by Melissa’s decision to create an entirely different life and to figure out, go for, and get the life she wanted, and incredibly proud of her. I wished wistfully that I had her guts, focus and determination, but when she first encouraged me to engage her as my life coach, I was very resistant. I had little faith that anything or anyone could help me escape the dark place in which I had been stuck for several years, and I was extremely fearful about the precarious state of my finances. Melissa also invited me to be a surprise guest at one of her creative retreats to introduce her clients to working with precious metal clay, and after this brief but compelling exposure to her facilitation style, the opportunity to work with her seemed like my best hope for finding clarity, focus, and passion again. Thanks to her continued encouragement, love and support, I made the difficult and scary decision to invest in a coaching engagement with her. The experience turned out to be fundamentally life-changing and valuable beyond any financial measure.

 

Melissa is an extraordinarily gifted coach, mentor and life guide. Our work together over the past five months has transformed my life more profoundly and in more ways than I possibly could have imagined when I started on this journey with her. She has helped me to appreciate and embrace self-love, self-care, self-compassion, self-acceptance, self-validation, self-trust, self-empowerment and self-responsibility. She inspired me to transformed my fundamental perspective from one of lack to one of infinite abundance. She has helped me listen to my own voice and my own needs, and has enabled me to experience the freedom that comes from letting go of resentments, excess “stuff”, outdated perceptions - anything that no longer serves my highest potential. She has gifted me with the joy of awareness, acceptance and gratitude for my life and its many blessings. She has helped me to understand, appreciate, and use the power of letting go of the past, of being fully present, and of living with intention. She has taught me to pay attention to any powerful negative emotions, to practice detachment, and to transform self-limiting thoughts, beliefs and emotions into self-empowering ones. She has helped me to understand my inner family and to engage those three aspects of myself in healthy and synergistic interactions that I can trust and call on to support my well-being.

 

Most importantly, perhaps, Melissa has made me aware of my connection to the Universe and to the infinite wellspring of energy and creativity inside me that I can tap into as much as I need to, as often as I need to, to support my needs, desires, and ability to share my gifts. She has taught me to own my value and helped me to reconnect to my passionate nature. She has inspired a pervasive “attitude of gratitude” in me. She has given me tools that support ongoing purposeful growth and ever-renewing commitment to creating the life I desire and deserve.

 

Melissa has known intuitively when to encourage me, when to challenge my excuses and hold me accountable for my choices, and when to honor and reinforce my commitment, determination and achievements. She has succeeded in breaking through the very tall and thick walls behind which I had barricaded myself for years and has pulled me firmly but lovingly back out into the light and into my life. In just five months, she has helped me progress from despair to optimism, from apathy to passion and zest, from lack to abundance, from avoiding responsibility to embracing it, from self-criticism to self-validation, and our work together has strengthened my relationship with my husband and helped him to make fundamental mental, emotional and spiritual shifts as well. Her wonderful wisdom, guidance, love and support have been invaluable, and I feel incredibly blessed to have been the fortunate recipient of them. I will be grateful to her forever for helping me to transform my experience of life so profoundly and positively.

 

If you are even considering the possibility of working with Melissa through any of her fabulous offerings, I urge you to stop thinking about it and just figure out how to make it happen! This investment will be the gift of a lifetime to yourself, to the people you love, and to those who love you.”

 

-Margaret Schindel, Writer, Jewelry Artist and Marketing Strategist

Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Melissa!

As I reflected back on all that we accomplished today during my drive home from my personal retreat day, I realized…given the fact that it usually takes me a good two months to complete and 8 key document (8-Key Coaching tool for Clarity), making as much progress on this particular 8-Key is a HUGE improvement.  It was like months of coaching in one day!  Plus, we tackled so many other key areas -  I definitely feel inspired to continue with this work and the clarity that emerged out of the creative chaos will help keep things in check over the upcoming months.  So THANK YOU!!!

Much gratitude, love and appreciation,

Valerie Guettler, Engineer & Creative Catalyst in Training

Austin, TX

 

“Melissa’s Coaching is the real deal! She is authentic, talented and a gifted healer. Our work together is the best investment I’ve made in myself. She dispelled my preconceived notions that coaching was a linear, cookie cutter/problem-solving approach to problems in living. She truly understands that change happens on the inside and has a unique ability/gift to be a catalyst in the transformation process. Her work is artful — a crafting together of compassion, awareness and useful, varied tools to bring about growth and change. She embodies the work that she inspires her clients to undertake. I benefited remarkably from our work together and recommend her work to others.”

– Lynn Motley, MSW, Therapist & Coach

Louisville, KT

“Melissa has the gift of holding space with safe and compassionate boundaries whilst still exuding her very personable and savvy self. Her insights have allowed me to see and embrace myself in my wholeness, opening me up to new ways of being in the world. Through her guidance, I feel empowered to honor my own innate capacity to intuit my own insights and transformation. Melissa truly is a unique catalyst for change. Kahlil Gibran said, ‘The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.’ Melissa embodies this, living her own wholeness in everything she does, inviting you to walk alongside her on your own path of transformation.”

- Bec Knaggs, Artist & Teacher & Certified Creative Catalyst

Melbourne, Australia 

“Melissa is a warm, generous soul. She asks hard questions and waits patiently for the answers I had to dredge out of the parts of me that didn’t want to see them. Then she is vastly supportive as I sort out what those answers mean for my life.

– Susan Corbin, PhD, Personal Coach

Austin, TX

 

“I find our private coaching sessions to provide key insight and practical application in obtaining what I really want in life. The process painting classes have taken my art in a direction that is well received. The coaching and process painting together equip me with a new level of connection to the spiritual and creative source. In conversation with my friends and peers, I recommend your services when a powerful change in the quality of their lives are desired.”

– Terry East, Entrepreneur and Business Strategist

San Francsico, CA