WHO Personal Coaching

Melissa Thornton's work with you draws on wisdom from systems psychology, personal growth training, career counseling, management consulting, organizational development, motivational training and good old common sense. These principles have been proven to work, consistently, with virtually every type of personality, situation, or challenge.

Melissa's clients describe her as:

Inspiring~ Intuitive~ Warm~ Passionate~ Supportive~
Challenging~ High Integrity~
Motivating~ Practical~ Organized~ Spiritual~ Joyful~ Outrageous~ Results-Oriented

PROFESSIONAL WEBSITES
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CREDENTIALS

EDUCATION

BA, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (1974)
MBA, Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1980)
MS, Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1990)
Coursework, MentorCoach, ICF and Coachville University
Coursework, Institute for Life Coach Training

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

Connecticut Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Maine Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Approved Supervisor - American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Clinical Member - AAMFT
Certificate Course in Family and Divorce Mediation

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
(AAMFT)
Maine Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Former President
- Former CAMFT WebMaster
International Coach Federation, New England Chapter
- Vice President-Marketing & Communications
- ICF-NE Web Maintenance
International Coach Federation, CT Chapter
- Former President
- Former ICF-CT WebMaster
CT Council for Divorce Mediation
- Former Member, Board of Directors

PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

   Melissa Thornton is a woman who loves adventure.
   She is drawn to meet challenges and grow from
   them. She can help you to seek out your challenges
   and transform them into opportunities; then make
    those opportunities into life adventures!
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
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Melissa's presentation topics.

Personal Coaching is for everybody!

Coaching deals with one or more of the relevant areas of your life, and is for people interested in working on:

Life Planning
Life vision & enhancement
Extreme self care
Spirituality
Relationships (Singles, couples, families, etc.)
Health & Fitness
Creativity
Financial Freedom
Organizational Skills
Children/Teens/College Students

Family Communications
Grief and Loss
Parenting
Retirement
Time Management
Organizational Skills
Leadership
Self and Other Motivation
Goal Setting
Career Transition/Decision Making

and others......

FOR EXAMPLE:

I work with: INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER PEOPLE: in couples, families, friendships, work or fun groups, small businesses, corporate teams.

· Individuals who wish to make deeper connections to their unique life purpose & "inner
        expert"
· Women and men who want to upgrade their career, business, and relationship goals
· Individuals seeking to find and attract a committed, passionate relationship
· Individuals, couples and groups looking to learn and implement life-balancing skills
· People choosing health, fitness and well-being as priorities
· Couples who want to have more sex, intimacy, communication and integrity in their lives
· Couples looking for premarital (and post-marital!) planning and skills building
· Those struggling with the pain of infidelity, separation and divorce issues, including
         co-parenting
· Creative, entrepreneurial & service-oriented people turning their talents into profitable
         businesses
· Physicians, therapists, coaches & professionals who want to build fulfilling practices &
        have a life
· Employees ready to pursue a big win, work transition, or new career role

      What about you?
                Do you want to:
                    ·  be an honest and effective communicator?
                    · zero in on personal and professional goals and issues?
                    · be creative without turmoil?
                    · improve and evolve your spiritual life?
                    · work on transitions of any kind?
                    · exchange limiting beliefs for powerful ones?
                    · live a bigger, better, bolder, more exciting life?
                    · · or to tackle those big blocks or huge challenges?
                             · relationship issues?
                             · career moves?
                             · time management?
                             · stress management?
                             · spiritual growth?