Melissa Bowen, LPC-S, CDWF The Authenticity Center
Melissa Bowen is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Coach, and a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. Her work revolves around the belief that the way we live and lead can be transformed by developing a stronger sense of self and living a more authentic, vulnerable, connected, and courageous life. It is her passion to teach the skills of doing just that.
Melissa is the only Certified Facilitator of The Daring Way™ in the Acadiana area, an approach based on the shame-resilience research of Brené Brown. She has a solo counseling private practice in Lafayette, LA, where she also supervises counselor interns working toward licensure. Melissa has worked with GlaskoSmithKline, KADN TV15, The United Way of Acadiana, and New Iberia Chamber of Commerce, among others.
She is a Nola native and proud graduate of The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (and USL). She lives in Lafayette with her husband, Kody, a few cats and some ducks. Yes, ducks.