Empowering Individuals and Couples in

Healthy Transitions, Thriving Marriages, and Effective Service

You have a sense of where you want to go, but you are not sure how to get there.

Step into a season of coaching to clarify the steps forward and reach your vision.

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The coaching we received from Melissa Chaplin was a huge part of the success we experienced... Melissa’s coaching prepared us to be more focused, more optimistic, and better team players.

Healthy Transitions

• Overcome the common obstacles in transitioning to a new culture or a new role
  
• Return from a host culture well, gaining closure on your past season and renewed vision for the next
• Grow personally and spiritually, even in hard places and difficult situations
  
• Live intentionally and with vitality in high-stress environments

Thriving Marriages

• Set your marriage up for success
  
• Utilize research-backed tools to reduce conflict, increase intimacy, and enjoy each other as well as your marriage.
  
• Leverage your unique strengths as a couple to achieve something greater than yourselves
• End misunderstandings and communicate effectively
  

Effective Service

• Find the best-fit role given your unique strengths and voice
  

• Leverage your strengths in living out your calling
• Work smarter not harder and utilize your innate strengths in leadership and followership
• Truly enjoy working with your team and do it effectively
• Joyfully do what you were created to do

What to expect

Clarity
Expect to gain clarity around your values, vision, purpose, and goals and then be able to make meaningful choices in all areas of life.

Relevance
​Expect to make the most of your time by deciding what is most important to you to focus on in each call.

Growth
Expect to be challenged and supported as you enjoy the sweet reward of taking creative steps towards living the vision you are being called to live.

A Committed Coach

My commitment to you:
I personally want to make the most of every moment. So, I will do my part to make sure that the time spent in coaching is valuable. With that in mind, to my clients, I commit to:

• engage myself fully in what matters most to you, during each and every coaching session.
• alert you to resources that you may find helpful throughout our coaching relationship.
• continually improve my craft of coaching through continuing education and tenacious study.
• abide by the International Coach Federation Code of Ethics.

Additionally, I coach from a faith perspective. If you have questions about this, let’s discuss this during our first conversation together.

We are blessed and thankful to have met Melissa who has a beautiful smile, a tender heart, and a gift for getting to the heart of the matter.

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Meet Your Coach

I am a Master Certified Coach who fully invests myself in helping you reach your goals.

I am...

Passionate about Healthy Transitions

• 20+ years of serving cross-cultural workers in all stages: calling discernment, partnership development, departure, acculturation, leaving, and re-entry
• Trauma informed and a lifelong student of the essential elements of resilience
• Author of Returning Well: Your Guide to Thriving Back "Home" After Serving Cross-Culturally.
• Coached and debriefed hundreds of clients in 40+ countries
  
• Certified Cerny Smith Assessment Coach

Dedicated to Thriving Marriages

• 20+ years serving couples of all stages, from seriously dating to married 50+ years, including cross-cultural couples.
• Tenacious learner of what makes relationships work
• Coached couples tackling a common goal or desiring to enhance their relationship
• Gottman Leader for 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work
• Gottman Relationship Check-up Approved Member
• Certified Couple Communication Instructor
• Certified PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator
• Certified SYMBIS Facilitator
• Gallup Certified Strengths Coach with application for couples

Devoted to Unleashing Effective Service

• 20+ years coaching clients to know with confidence that they are living with purpose and intention while fully leveraging their gifts, skills, and strengths
• Firmly believe that every person has a significant contribution to make
• Gallup Certified Strengths Coach with application for Individuals, Leaders, and Teams
• Versed in the 5 Voices and High-Performance Relationships
• Coach educators and students to Educate with Strength

Wondering if a season of coaching would be a good fit?
Contact me for a complimentary discovery coaching session.

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MELISSA CHAPLIN

 You have been an incredible resource for me and my family. You have always been gracious and respectful as we try to continue to figure out our ministry, marriage, and family life. Your training and experience shine through each call with consistent processes and a wealth of knowledge.

What it means to be a Master Certified Coach

The MCC credential represents to some what is called the "PhD of coaching." While it is not a PhD, it is an elite designation that comes only after thousands of hours of experience and performance assessments demonstrating the highest skill level in coaching. Of the over 41,000 coaches worldwide who are ICF credentialed, only 1,575 of them hold the MCC designation (as of Jan. 2022).

While all that is true, having the MCC credential represents to something far greater than high skill. To me, it represents the awesome privilege I have had the past 17 years to partner with people to achieve what they only dreamed or hoped would be possible as they seek to make a positive difference in their spheres of influence.

What are your hopes?

What dreams do you wish would become reality?

Let's connect and see what might transpire through this powerful space of coaching.

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Life Coaching is...

A partnership

“The greatest benefit I received from coaching was having regular contact with someone that was personally invested in my professional and spiritual walk. Melissa is very gifted in 'The Art of the Question.' … I really cannot imagine any sort of success without her input.”

...that uses focused conversations

“Those conversations really helped me figure out who I was and what I'm built for. And that put me on the track that brought me to where I am now. So thank you.”

...to clarify your vision and goals

“I have been so blessed to have a coach. You gave me something that I have never had--someone to challenge my thinking, not to change me but to help me learn what I thought God was telling me to do. You did not tell me what to do, but you helped me see it more clearly. Very few times do we have people who help us see things more clearly. I could not have done this without you.”

...and design creative yet purposeful steps 

“Through coaching, we were able to accomplish something that we have not been able to do for years--living on a personal budget. It was an incredible burden we were carrying and now we are set free. I used to bury my head in the sand on financial things and now I am having fun. We are paying off our debt and experiencing freedom!”

...to move towards living out your vision.

"There were so many things that we gleaned from the help of our amazing coach. Looking back, one of the most important things was how she coached our relationship as husband and wife. We were able to develop skills that have deepened our friendship and laid a foundation for our life-long journey ahead. We can truly say that we are healthier and stronger as a family as a result of spending time with Melissa."

Coaching has played an enormous part in every part of my life, and I attribute so much of who I am today to what God did through it.

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Your investment

Personal Investment
Commit to get the most out of coaching by considering if this is the right season in your life for coaching, bringing your whole self and being the real you in each coaching session, investing your time and attention on coaching take-aways in between sessions, and owning your goals and taking the steps necessary to reach the place where you are living out your vision.

Financial and Time Investment
During our complimentary discovery coaching session (sometimes called a free-initial coaching session), we will design a coaching engagement fitted to your goals and desired outcomes. Most engagements last a minimum of three months and others last up to two years.

The cost of each coaching engagement will depend on any desired assessments as well as length of the engagement. We will discuss these options to create a good-fit engagement for you during our discovery session.

Ready? Let's begin with a complimentary discovery session.

I would be honored to hear what you would like different in your life through coaching and see if I am the right coach for you. Once I receive your form below, we will find a time to meet virtually. There is no commitment to start coaching following this conversation.

I grew in so much self-awareness through coaching and I now have more tools and motivation to reflect and actively take care of my heart, mind, body and spirit. Melissa was so sensitive to the Holy Spirit, always knowing the exact questions to ask to bring me to a place of deeper awareness and clarity.