Melissa Schwartz helps Highly Sensitive Families master their emotions, set healthy boundaries (within themselves and with others) and embrace their capacity for deep empathy.

She draws on both her extensive professional training and deep personal experience to support hundreds of highly sensitive families on 6 continents. Melissa is an author, public speaker, transformational coach, the co-founder of Leading Edge Parenting and an internationally respected expert in the field of Highly Sensitive Children. She is the co-author of “Authentic Parenting Power” and “Rico the Race Car: Rico’s Bumpy Week“.

As three time host for The Shift Network’s “Sensitives, Intuitives and Empaths Summit”, Melissa has taught over 250,000 people how to reparent their inner highly sensitive child, to identify (and heal) their core wounds and why trauma may be more intense for sensitive people than others.

Melissa and her family (including highly sensitive dog, Maggie, and flock of chickens) live in Southern California. She is a Stanford University alumna and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.