Mental Health & Wellness Coaching, Events, and Resources

With an MBA in Finance and Marketing from NYU Stern and over a decade of experience in leadership roles at top companies like Google and American Express, I bring a wealth of knowledge to my coaching practice. As a Life, Career, and Marketing Coach, I specialize in purpose and career mentoring, helping individuals and teams align their goals with their core values. My approach is holistic, focusing on mental health and wellness to ensure sustainable success. Whether you're looking to enhance your personal growth or improve team dynamics, I'm here to guide you. Let's work together to unlock your full potential with Clarity, Ease, and Confidence.

I help people navigate stress, transitions, decisions, recurring patterns, self-criticism, competing priorities, and everyday life with greater awareness, agency, and care. As a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), I draw on motivational interviewing, behavior-change science, mindfulness, and self-compassion when they support your goals. Together, we can notice what may be shaping your experience within you, in your relationships, and in the systems around you; reconnect with strengths, supports, meaning, and purpose; and explore what response feels wise and workable now. Sometimes coaching is about solving a problem or making a decision. Sometimes it is about making more room for joy, connection, energy, or possibility. Mindfulness practices are optional, and coaching does not replace psychotherapy, diagnosis, crisis care, or medical treatment.

Welcome to my profile! With a rich background in mental health and wellness, I bring over a decade of experience from my roles in the United States Army Reserve and as a Mental Health Therapist. My work has focused on supporting the behavioral health mission for over 190,000 Soldiers, where I managed program operations and guided mental health policy. I hold a Master of Social Work from Boise State University and am currently pursuing a PhD in Trauma and Disaster Relief. I've successfully coached individuals to enhance their mental well-being and resilience. Let's work together to develop a personalized plan to achieve your mental health goals. Reach out to start your journey towards improved wellness today!

I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), NASM- CPT and certified through Precision Nutrition along with a master’s degree in kinesiology and more than 3,000 hours of coaching experience. I specialize in helping people manage stress, strengthen resilience, navigate life and career transitions, and create sustainable habits that support their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based behavior change, motivational interviewing, and whole-person coaching. I provide a supportive, judgment-free space where you can gain clarity, build confidence, and turn insight into realistic action.

I coach in the health and wellness space by integrating neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic regulation into practical, high-impact transformation. As the founder of Love Prescriptions and creator of the 5R Breakup Recovery Method and 5P Conscious Masculinity framework, I help driven individuals regulate their nervous systems, shift unconscious patterns, and build emotional resilience that supports sustainable success in both life and leadership. I am trained through iPEC as an Energy Leadership™ coach and utilize the ELI assessment to help clients identify and reframe the energetic patterns driving their behaviors, relationships, and performance.

I hold a Mental Health First Aid certification, which gives me a practical framework for recognizing when someone is struggling and how to respond in a way that's supportive rather than performative. But most of what I bring to this isn't from a textbook. I've lived with [condition/experience] myself, both personally and while holding down demanding leadership roles, and I know firsthand what it costs to push through in silence versus what it takes to actually ask for support. I don't coach from a place of "I fixed it and now I'll fix you." I coach from a place of still managing it, still learning, and knowing that the leaders who talk about it openly are usually the ones who make it safer for everyone else on their team to do the same.

My path to this work is personal. Like many of the leaders I coach, I've faced my own mental health challenges, and learning to navigate them, rather than push through or ignore them, changed how I show up in my work and my life. That experience is part of why I do this work: I know what it feels like to be high-functioning on the outside while struggling on the inside, and I know what it takes to find your way back to steadiness. After more than a decade in strategy and organizational consulting, partnering with government agencies, nonprofits, universities, and leadership teams, I paired that professional rigor with a deeply human understanding of what it takes to sustain wellbeing under pressure. Through Emerging Whole, I coach leaders and high-achievers navigating burnout, stress, and difficult transitions. I bring both the strategic tools of a consultant and the empathy of someone who has genuinely been there, so you get a coach who can hold both your goals and your humanity.

I’m a 3x founder and product leader from Meta, Oculus, BetterUp, and Shopify. I build products that transform lives and help people and teams navigate change, uncertain moments, life/career transitions and burnout. For a decade, I launched 0 to 1 products used by millions in tech in Digital Health, Youth Wellbeing, Trust& Safety, Virtual Reality, Marketplaces, B2B SaaS, AdTech and more. As an entrepreneur at heart, I bootstrapped a SaaS company to $1M ARR, co-founded a nonprofit that has supported students and founders for over a decade, and grew a six-figure coaching business with an AI-powered well-being platform. As an educator, I developed the Product Management curriculum from scratch at General Assembly, served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for an AI Product Management Program and taught 300+ students on Maven through custom-made programs on careers, identity, burnout, and tech. Alongside tech, I spent a decade training and gaining experience in coaching, psychology, behavioral science, and holistic medicine. I have a coaching certification from Brown University and am trained in Internal Family Systems, yoga, meditation, Qi Gong and principles of holistic wellbeing rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Now, I help high-achieving professionals, founders, creatives and women in tech navigate their most uncertain moments and rebuild their career, life and sense of self: - Burnout recovery and prevention, work-life balance - Exhaustion, anxiety, disconnection - Loss of identity, purpose and meaning - Increasing sensitivities and ADHD - Accumulated stress, fears, doubts after major life changes - Communication, influence, executive presence and boundaries - Leadership with authenticity, energy, clarity and balance - Getting new work, changing careers, starting a business My coaching blends: career and business mentorship, psychology, mindfulness, intuitive guidance and holistic wellness. I got an understanding of the physiological and psychological toll of chronic stress through my own experience navigating immigrations, lay-offs, family breakdowns, founder breakups, endings, stress-related symptoms, a near death experience and more. Based on this lived experiences, hundreds of client sessions I created an evidence-based method pairing psychology (i.e. IFS, somatic, positive psych) with Eastern practices (i.e. TCM, meditation, energy work) that is the back-bone of all my coaching and programs. I'm excited to explore how I can help you in your new chapter!

🏆 RECIPIENT OF LELAND TOP COACH AWARD 2026 🏆 ✨I'm a PCC Certified Life Coach and Healer, tying together the rigor of the executive world with the flow of the spiritual. My rich blend of skills and a multi-hyphenate background including coaching, somatics, breathwork, meditation, reiki (energy healing), tarot reading, and natural intuitive abilities allow me to be an excellent coach, with an eye for detail and heart in my clients’ unique stories. ✨MY WELLNESS SPECIALITIES: • Authentic Awakening - finding your purpose, your life path, or your authenticity • Transformation Coach - creating the transformation you're seeking for a happier, more meaningful, or more peaceful life experience • Healing Arts / Metaphysical - explore your healing trajectory through modalities such as somatics, energy work, meditation, and tarot to exit the matrix and improve your life experience ✨WHO YOU ARE: • I proudly work with everyone—regardless of your race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual preference, religion, or anything else ✨WHAT BENEFITS CAN YOU EXPECT: • Exiting the Matrix • Discovering Your Purpose • Knowing Your Authentic Code • Better Work-Life Balance • Increased Earning Potential and Promotions • Clarity and Direction • Improved Confidence • Actionable Strategies ✨LET'S IMPROVE YOUR LIFE TODAY: Contact Melanie Espeland for your free consultation today.

I coach high-performing professionals who look successful on paper but feel mentally stretched, emotionally reactive, or quietly burned out behind the scenes. With nearly two decades in performance psychology, mindset training, and resilience development, I help clients strengthen mental clarity, emotional control, stress regulation, and identity alignment. My background spans corporate sales, executive coaching, and high-performance athletics — giving me firsthand experience navigating pressure, setbacks, and performance demands without sacrificing internal stability. This is not therapy. It’s structured mental conditioning. We work on practical tools: emotional regulation under stress, reframing destructive thought loops, building disciplined habits, strengthening self-trust, and eliminating the internal friction that drains energy. The goal is simple — operate with calm authority, focus, and resilience in work and life.