Finley's Footprints

Mel Scott is an occupational therapist, qualified teacher and experienced life coach. She offers individual coaching sessions for parents who have experienced a loss.

Mel feels that her unique coaching style can be a great source of support at any time in the months or years that follow a loss.  It can complement other support services such as counselling, and can be something that parents choose to move into following a series of counselling sessions.  Coaching can be a support for people in many ways such as

• Harnessing hope - hope is a very important emotion to find, and something that is invaluable after a loss in trying to create a different future. 
• Finding goals/dreams/wishes – it can be difficult to move forward, to wish for things, or make plans for a future that seems so uncertain.  Mel’s gentle, nurturing, compassionate style can help to find goals long forgotten, or new ones just in bud and work in the parents own time frame to take small, manageable steps towards achieving them (whilst being there to cheer you on).
•  Survival – sometimes it is just too hard to dream, to scary to think of a future when you have lost the future you imagined.  Mel has experience of her own grief, and the steps that she has taken to survive those early days and weeks following the loss, and the difficult times that surpise us in the longer term.  Coaching is person centred, and can be very useful tool in helping to create a survival plan, for those difficult times – helping the parent to tread water until hope is again harnessed.

These 1 to 1 individual sessions are tailored to your specific neeeds and as a guide fees are £65 per session, or 10 sessions for £500.  Mel is willing to discuss other options with individuals, as it is important that support is available to all who need it. 

Please contact her for more details and to book sessions.

Mel Scott is also available as an inspirational speaker, please contact her for further details.  She is a wonderful speaker to have at conferences about grief, and bereavement, hope.  She would find it very rewarding to speak to professionals working with bereaved parents giving them a unique and valuable insight into the loss of a much wanted baby.