Hi, I’m Melanie

 

Originally from Northern California, I currently reside on the island of Hawaii in beautiful Kailua-Kona. Prior to setting roots there, I spent quite a few years traveling while working abroad. I find that I learn best through experience - and I believe that travel is a wonderful experiential teacher! Currently, I am in school at Hawaii Pacific University for my Master’s degree in Social Work, with the intent to become a mental health therapist. I hope to weave together my somatic coaching skills with my therapeutic practice.

I also hold my Reiki Master Teacher certification and a 13-month Priestess training on leading Goddess Circles.  Though VITA coaching is the core of my work currently, I tend to utilize all of my modalities together - creating the best results for my clients.    I enjoy anything music or nature-related in my free time, especially if it involves a body of water.  

What is VITA Coaching?

VITA coaching is so effective because it focuses on the somatic experience of the client, as opposed to the traditional types of purely mental, analytical processes that one would find in traditional talk therapy.  With these somatic and meditative practices, I find that clients can address their emotional states with so much more ease and safety present.  This allows for healing to occur, under the guidance of a trauma-informed practitioner.  In the areas of Sex, Love, and Relationship, I find this somatic method to be so effective because we hold all of our stories in our bodies as well as our minds.  Therefore, we need to approach the alchemical process of healing with targeted and multifaceted processes - in order to transmute our pain points at every level of being.

What Does My Coaching Address?

  • Exploring sexual empowerment - what that means for the client, and how they can attain it in their body and experience

  • Addressing shame - because many of us undergo conditioning that is very negative around sexuality, and prevents us from accessing our sexual and relational authenticity and desires 

  • Opening to deeper orgasmic pleasure - releasing freeze in the body and welcoming expansion that is safe and juicy

  • Getting the spark back in a long-term relationship 

  • Attracting aligned partnership 

  • Cultivating self-love and self-worth

  • Becoming more secure in attachment style 

And so much more!!

While I am not yet a psychotherapist and cannot work with those who are actively struggling with severely impairing mental health challenges, there is still a lot we can do together with coaching! I am also happy to collaborate with your psychotherapist as needed.  


Please reach out if you’re at all interested or curious at: bermanmel44@gmail.com