Melissa Schulz, MS, BCBA is an award-winning Parenting Coach, behavior expert, and speaker who specializes in supporting parents of strong-willed, highly sensitive, and neurodiverse children know exactly how to calmly connect and effectively teach positive behaviors. With over twenty years of experience supporting children and families, Melissa brings a rare blend of real life parenting insight, nervous system education, and practical strategies to her work.
Melissa supports parents who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and stuck in cycles of power struggles, meltdowns, and self doubt. Her work focuses on helping parents understand what is actually driving their child’s behavior, regulate their own nervous system first, and respond in ways that build connection while creating real change.
Melissa is the creator of the GUIDE Framework, a step by step process that helps parents gather data, understand triggers, investigate the cause of behavior, deter challenges, and encourage appropriate behavior without shame or punishment based approaches. Her coaching emphasizes clarity over quick fixes and capacity over control.
Melissa is a national conference speaker and has been featured in USA Today, USA News, and Good Morning US. She is a mom of 3 with two neurospicy children of her own, lives in California with her family and is passionate about helping parents feel less alone and more supported in the hardest seasons of parenting.
