Melissa Lyn Scott

Some areas of specialty include: faith strengthening and spiritual growth; God-given spiritual gifts, passions, and style; womanhood, marriage, motherhood; relationship building, family connection or reconnection, family crisis, biblical boundaries; acute stress and anxiety; grief and loss; foster parenting, adoptive parenting, attachment, and trauma-informed care.

Jesus is her first love; after Him are her husband, children, grandchildren, and extended family. Her church is a joy, and being "at church" is her happy place.

Personally, Melissa enjoys reading, writing, being a prayer warrior, and digging in and discovering deeper things in the Bible; traveling with her hubby and family-whether it's a road trip, taking a plane, or a camping trip; having a slow cup of coffee or hot tea with honey, homemade ice cream, or chips and salsa to the last drop; campfires; rocking on her back porch; going out to eat with family and friends; exploring their little town by golf cart; getting her feet in the sand at the beach; singing, playing flute, slowly learning mandolin; crocheting, rebounding, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, crytograms, and number puzzles.

Two of Melissa's many favorite Scripture passages are:

• James‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” ‭

• II Corinthians 9:8, "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every work."

Melissa's trainings and certifications include:

Certified Mental Health Coach (MHC)

Neuroscience-Informed Brain Health Coach (NBHC)

Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) Ongoing Training

Trauma-Informed Care

Biblically sound spiritual counsel and life coaching for women, children, youth, and families.

(Certified MHC/FR/BHNC)

Melissa's experience includes 30 years of teaching, counseling, coaching, and mentoring women one-on-one and in groups in her church and community.

She's authored multiple Bible studies and is a keynote speaker for ladies' retreats, workshops, and conferences.

Melissa has 25 years of experience with a variety of special needs parenting, including medically fragile, mental and emotional disorders, developmental delays, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Autism spectrum, childhood trauma, childhood anxiety and depression, attachment disorder, children and teens in crisis, foster and adoptive parenting, large family dynamics, and homeschooling.

It was her great pleasure to serve for several years as a foster/adoptive parent liaison on the Indiana Department of Child Services Resource and Adoptive Parent Training (RAPT) committee as a planning committee member, workshop speaker, and panelist.