Melody Di Bona

I spent more than 15 years training as a scientist. I earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Biotechnology, worked in biochemistry research on proteins involved in diabetes and obesity, and later completed a PhD in Physics specializing in nanoscopy and nanobiophotonics. I was fascinated by quantum physics, by the dual nature of light, and by the possibility of overcoming what once seemed like fixed limits — such as the diffraction limit — to observe life at the nanoscale.

I then spent six years in New York City as a postdoctoral researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center working in cancer research. There, I developed my own research line studying cancer cell biology. My work discovered how normal processes such as mitochondrial metabolism and oxidative stress, when become dysregulated, affect nuclear stability, tumor evolution, and patient survival, and it was published in and featured on the cover of Science (Di Bona et al, 2024).

My career was brilliant. Internally, however, my personal life was marked by struggles that many people silently carry: abandonment wounds, severe eating disorders, burnout, loss of direction, painful relationship patterns, anxiety, and periods of deep emotional despair. Over time, through meditation, emotional healing, Reiki and later NLP, I rebuilt my relationship with myself and completely changed the direction of my life.

That journey eventually led me to leave science and become a coach. At the peak of my scientific career, I realized I no longer wanted only to understand transformation intellectually — I wanted to help people experience it directly in their own lives.

Today I am a certified NLP, Hypnosis, and Time Line Therapy™ Practitioner, Create Your Future™ Coach, meditation teacher, and Reiki practitioner. My work combines scientific rigor, deep emotional understanding, and structured transformational methods to help people create lasting change in their lives.

Who I Work With

I feel particularly connected to people who are intelligent, ambitious, sensitive, and self-aware, yet feel stuck in emotional patterns or in a life that no longer represents them.

Many of my clients are high-achieving people who appear successful externally while internally struggling with anxiety, burnout, emotional overwhelm, attachment patterns, loss of direction, perfectionism, or the feeling that they are “not enough.”

I especially love helping people reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-worth and confidence, and realize that their past does not have to define their future.

What I Help People With

My work focuses particularly on:

• self-confidence, self-worth and limiting beliefs
• anxiety and emotional overwhelm
• burnout and recovery
• relationship and attachment patterns
• career transitions and major life decisions
• motivation, clarity, and goal achievement

I help clients identify the root causes of the patterns keeping them stuck and create meaningful, sustainable transformation. Clients are empowered to create their own future.

What Working With Me Looks Like

I work primarily online with clients internationally while remaining open to community building with in-person gathering and retreats. 

I always start with a free discovery call so we can explore what you are experiencing, what you would like to change, and whether my approach feels aligned with your needs and goals. I offer both focused breakthrough processes for a total of about 8h on a specific issue, and longer coaching journeys with ongoing support, accountability, and deeper personal growth.

What I Believe

Science taught me to question assumptions and look for root causes. Coaching taught me that transformation becomes possible the moment we stop believing that our current reality, identity, or emotional patterns are fixed.

I believe in curiosity, courage, honesty, emotional responsibility, meaningful ambition, and human connection. I believe vulnerability is strength, and that real transformation happens when we learn to align mind, body, emotions, and purpose.

And maybe that is why I am such a fan of Harry Potter — because the real magic was never in the wand, but in friendship, love, loyalty, courage, and the choice to keep moving forward despite fear.

That, to me, is the kind of magic that truly changes lives.