Ph.D. Health Communication
Meet Katie
Katie Melville is a Portland, Oregon professional coach holding the ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and adheres to the ICF ethical guidelines. As a coach Katie uses evidence-based tools and techniques from the Coactive Training Institute, where she trained and continues to volunteer. Katie holds a Ph.D. in communication and has over 17 years of experience in public relations, strategic communications, risk and health communication. She works professionally and teaches risk communication online for Tulane University. She began her own consulting business in 2015 and continues to advise companies, businesses, and public organizations on how to streamline organizational processes and improve their public relations and marketing activities.
Katie is also passionate about ceremony and ritual in modern life and launched Moon Shadow Rituals in 2021. Moon Shadow Rituals focused on wedding elopements, celebrations of life, and personal sessions to help people process their life transitions including wedding elopements, celebrations of life, mother & baby blessings, military funerals, and grief processing.
– 17 years working professionally for government, private companies, and non-profits
– 3.5 years Executive level leadership & Supervisory manager
– 100+ hours coaching training education from Coactive Training Institute
– ICF Associate Coach Credential issued 2023
– Coaching sessions are co-created to meet the needs of the client
– Sessions length ranges from 30 minutes to 90 minutes depending on client needs and schedule
– Behavior change is not impossible, it just takes time to rewire the habitual mind
– Clients report sustained changes and progress improvement after 6 sessions
