Melissa West
Life coach and psychotherapist for professional women over 45

• http://www.MelissaGayleWest.com
• http://www.FlourishingAfterFortyFive.com

I help professional women over 45 flourish again.

Inspire and support midlife women to relish creative and richly meaningful lives. Clients say I'm heartful, warmly supportive, curious, playful, and able to go with them into both deeply pleasureful and deeply painful places. I love my work, which I've been doing now for twenty-five years.

Community! Other cultural pioneers to share ideas with, learn from, support and be supported by, and play with. I love co-teaching, and welcome invitations to teach and cofacilitate from other folks working with women over 45.

• Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy
• Undergraduate music degree (used to be a performing classical musician)
• Professional coaching training and certification from Coach U
• Growing up in New Orleans! Dyed-in-the-wool, zydecoing, Mardi Gras parade marching, gumbo eating gal
• And, finally, ongoing continuing ed in life: plenty of life challenges, plenty of pleasure!

I teach and speak internationally on issues for women in midlife, particularly around life transitions, and creating deeply pleasured, soulful lives. I've published four books on different aspects of living deeply meaningful lives. I write a newsletter for women over 45, FlourishingAfterFortyFive, and offer retreats on created lusciously pleasured midlives (and, yes, sexuality is a part of that, but we're talking living your whole life from an erotic, deeply spiritual source). I love working one on one as well, in person as well as by phone.