
Our Practitioners
Meet the practitioners who bring their unique gifts, experience, and approaches together in support of individual and collective wellbeing.

Executive Director, Board Chair
Cori Lee Skelly
Cori is the Executive Director of the Creative Center for Wellbeing, combining her passion for community and financial empowerment. With over 20 years in bookkeeping and 15 years in tax preparation, she helps individuals–particularly women entrepreneurs–build financial confidence and clarity. She also founded Serenity Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation LLC.

Practitioner, Board Member
Melissa Dessart
Melissa is an artist, entrepreneur, educator, and spiritual seeker. She founded Creators Space, a 34,000 sqft creativity center in St. Paul, MN, which organically built a diverse creative collective of over 200 individuals during its seven years. As an artist, she explores acrylic painting, writing, and healing arts, and in 2025 launched "Illuminating Your Inner Artist," a self-discovery practice shared through workshops and 1:1 sessions.

Practitioner, Board Member
Laura Libby
As an internationally celebrated performer and holistic wellness practitioner, Laura Libby understands the profound connection between embodiment, self-expression, and healing. Drawing from three decades of experience in yoga, meditation, breathwork, somatic movement, massage therapy, Reiki, and sound healing, she helps people reconnect with the wisdom, vitality, pleasure, and joy within. Through 1:1 sessions, workshops, retreats, and community experiences, Laura guides people through life's transitions while cultivating deeper connection to self, community, and the natural world.

Practitioner
Melissa Ollila
Melissa is an intuitive medium, energy healer, and guide with over two decades of experience in reconnecting others with their inner knowing. She is the founder of Readings with Melissa and The Intuitive Guild, as well as the creator of Beyond Words: The Language of Connection. Through her offerings, she bridges the seen and unseen, guiding people to trust what they feel and know.

Practitioner
Andrea Gerrard
Andrea Gerrard is a certified grief educator, writer, speaker, ritualist, and circle-keeper devoted to transforming the approach to grief and loss. She invites a reimagining of grief as a sacred experience that deepens connection, meaning, and belonging. Rooted in a whole-human approach, she weaves mind, body, and spirit practices to support reconnection with nature and community, sharing her work through grief circles, workshops, and one-on-one guidance.

Practitioner
Kelly Frush
Kelly is a collaborative systems thinker, artist, writer, and editor who helps people build resiliency and foster community. She is also a permaculture designer and coach who specializes in creating sustainable and regenerative home-scale food systems. Kelly uses permaculture principles to help clients grow a variety of food while creating healthy soil, conserving water, and reducing their carbon footprint.

Practitioner
Leigha Horton
Leigha Horton is the owner and co-founder of Silvae Spiritus Northwoods Nature Retreat and a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is also a Master Teacher in Usui Reiki and a folk herbalist, often exploring phenomena at the nexus of established science and The Great Mystery. With experience as a professional voiceover actor and a museum educator, Leigha now guides via nature-connected modalities, including Forest Bathing, Herbcraft, and Woodland Sauna.

Practitioner
Dr. Justine Chatterton
Justine is a licensed psychologist specializing in trauma healing and self-discovery. Her work combines individual healing with a mandate to deconstruct systems of harm, aiming to co-create new systems of safety and freedom through community care. She uses plant medicine to guide people in accessing the sacred power of nature for transformation.