Melissa M. Shepherd-Williams, Marriage Family Therapist

Melissa M. Shepherd-Williams, Marriage Family Therapist The mission of my practice is to assist individuals in tapping into their strengths and healing.

Podcasts:
https://anchor.fm/transformativereflections

https://anchor.fm/reflexiontransformativa

THIS and much more.
03/10/2026

THIS and much more.

03/09/2026

Happy International Women’s Day!

02/27/2026

Libertad

Que nuestra libertad sea una expresión de nuestro bienestar ❤️

02/27/2026

May our freedom be an expression of our wellness ❤️

If you have the opportunity to partake in these freedoms, please do it. If you don't have access to all, may your imagin...
02/12/2026

If you have the opportunity to partake in these freedoms, please do it. If you don't have access to all, may your imagination also set you free to experience them there. The brain is delicious that way...

02/10/2026

Inolvidable ❤️🙏🏾

¡Gracias, Benito! Fue una noche inolvidable celebrando cultura, comunidad y el indiscutible poder del amor. Las artes cuentan nuestras historias. Tantos detalles lindos le hicieron honor a nuestros ancestros y al gran corazón de toda América. Hasta lloré de emoción y orgullo.

A pesar de todo lo sufrido a través de generaciones, mantenemos nuestro sabor… Seguimos aquí.

01/25/2026

There are no words to adequately express my gratitude for all who have participated in this journey of creating a gift for our communities with love. Thank you to MiVUE Productions, editor Paul Hemstreet, actors Eduardo Towers, Ingrid Díaz, Valaira Sa-Ra, Derrick Williams. My sweetheart Brad, Mom, and sister-in-LOVE Gene, you have no idea…Family and friends are always there to support and encourage. It is my life’s work to be of service in ways that support our communities' healing.

My heart is full as I bring this project to completion, after several years of adding pieces to it, which have also transformed me and deepened my own healing process. As I witness, along with our communities, what’s happening in the world, it feels ever more urgent that we all amplify our gifts. We may not all see the healing results on the other side of this big and painful shift the world is going through but, like our ancestors, we are doing the work. Here’s to true thriving! Onward with love. Let’s go together.

Join the 4-week From Burnout to Bliss series: https://www.melissamshepherd.com/group-events

01/21/2026

Vayamos en comunidad

El agotamiento se intensifica en el aislamiento.

Nos enseñaron a seguir adelante en silencio, a ser fuertes hasta en la soledad.

Pero esa no es la forma en que debemos sanar.

Esta temporada, elijo un camino diferente.

Vayamos en comunidad.

01/20/2026

Let’s go together.

Burnout thrives in isolation.

Many of us were taught to push through quietly, to be strong alone.
But that’s not how we’re meant to heal.

This season, I’m choosing a different way.

Let’s go together.

01/15/2026

El agotamiento es consecuencia, entre otras cosas, de perder la perspectiva sobre cómo cultivar las relaciones, lo que termina por dañarlas. Esta es una razón de peso para haber creado una nueva edición de y el . Necesitamos y merecemos apoyo para desarrollar prácticas que nutran nuestro bienestar y cuiden nuestras relaciones.

Únete al Círculo aquí:

https://www.melissamshepherd.com/group-events

01/14/2026

No es un fallo personal

El agotamiento no es debilidad:

es lo que sucede cuando te ves en la obligación de sobrevivir en lugar de vivir.

La opresión nos enseña que el descanso es peligroso

y que el valor reside en el sufrimiento.

Escribí Jornada del Desgaste a la Felicidad

y creé el Círculo de Conexión

para que finalmente podamos sanar en comunidad.

Si sientes la urgencia de dejar de simplemente sobrevivir… Únete al Círculo visitando el enlace: https://www.melissamshepherd.com/group-events

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15840 Ventura Boulevard , Suite 306
Encino, CA
91436

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3pm - 9pm

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The Art of Living Deliciously

A graduate of Antioch University in Los Angeles, she’s a psychotherapist serving for over 20 years, and has been dedicating herself to design and present programs on how to live with GUSTO by taking charge of one’s health in body, mind, and spirit. Her workshops, newsletters, and videos provide diverse ways to communicate with the people she serves.

Her book titled “Living Deliciously: Recipes to Welcome Joy into Our Lives” is a compilation of her newsletters including exercises and reflections on how to “squeeze the juice” out of life. Melissa’s most recent book, From Burnout to Bliss, will add to her creation of learning tools for preventing and emerging from a sense of being stuck professionally and personally. As part of her private practice, through speaking engagements, she has served audiences such as the Los Angeles Police Department psychologists; Writers’ Guild of America; UCLA Human Resources students; Association of Los Angeles County African-American Employees; Latino Behavioral Health Institute Conference; California State University Los Angeles faculty; and Community Parenting Program in the City of Santa Clarita. In addition to private practice, she serves as a psychotherapist at the California Institute of the Arts and Adjunct Faculty in the School of Cultural and Family Psychology at Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School. Essentially, Melissa perceives the development of life-affirming routines as the core of thriving and “deliciousness”.