Dr. Terry is passionate about helping parents find more ease and calm in parenting. Through her work in adult residential services, community mental health, public and private schools, and private practice, she has worked with hundreds of parents as they’ve navigated the normal and out-of-the ordinary phases of child development.

Melissa knows better than to promise stress-free parenting, but she loves helping parents become more confident and skilled in their parenting strategies so they know what to do and how to say things in the heat of the moment.

As a parent of two spirited and wildly different children, Melissa often has the opportunity to test out her strategies at home. Those “opportunities” are often followed by her family *calmly* reminding her that she’s not at work and they aren’t her clients! When her clients are describing their own parenting struggles, she can often recall parallel examples between their stories and her own.

Melissa is a school and clinical psychologist who loves to work with kids and coach their parents. She has seen the joy and relief that comes to overwhelmed parents when they feel empowered with knowledge about themselves and their children.

When she’s not conducting experiments on her own kids, Melissa enjoys puzzling, baking, and being warm—either outside in the summer or wrapped in blankets in the winter. If she wasn’t working as a parent coach and psychologist, she’d want to be a professional organizer.