Nerissa Nields-Duffy

"Nerissa has the unique ability to balance compassionate understanding with motivating action. She has provided me with tremendous empathy and support while helping me clarify not just my feelings, but practical actions that have changed my mind, my heart, and my life. Nerissa is a no-nonsense go-getter with wisdom and heart. She is inspiring and inspired, creative, flexible, funny and down to earth."-HJ University Administrator

"Nerissa is incredibly intuitive. She helped me uncover road blocks that I did not even know I had. Nerissa unlocked insights about who I am and the person that I can become." –KG nurse in training

"I'm grateful for you this Thanks-giving season.  Your wisdom, ideas, good listening ability, incisive observations, cool meditation exercises, related anecdotes, saturation in the 'Beck methodology', etc. have been valuable to me in my new life direction development, Nerissa.  It's amazing how just a few nuggets of the right stuff (in my "coaching lite" package!) can go a long way in watering the seeds in someone's life.  It's been like our conversations are little fertilizer pellets for my plant."-BC

"Nerissa's open and playful spirit creates a safe atmosphere to explore, discover and create in. Thank you for sharing your gift." -JS, life coach

"Nerissa helped me get clear on some beliefs I had been holding for a long time that had been holding me back from having a harmonious relationship with the woman I love. Thanks to my work with Nerissa I am happier in my relationship and happier in myself. She helped me see the power of writing my beliefs down on paper and getting them out into the open where I could examine and rework them. I now do the work on my own and it really has helped me get clear and feel better in a number of different areas in my life."-LM, life coach

"[Nerissa’s] retreats are like a little weekend of life coaching, and the writing is just a wonderful amazing by-product."-NB, student

"Nerissa…is the most amazing woman with so many gifts. Not the least of which is [her] great, giving heart." -MW, consultant and life coach

"I have been trying to learn to take the personal and professional transitions of my recent past and get them to form me into the kind of person I want to be--strong, gracious, and joyous rather than afraid or bitter. [Nerissa’s] insights, both in conversation and song, have given me food for thought and for my soul."-SM, Harvard Divinity School student

 "…not sure I could think of any better guide. [Nerissa] always ask (s) the right questions." -CJ, poet

"Nerissa...is  amazing at asking all the right questions, then letting us go find our own answers--always with support and encouragement." -KM, teacher

“I feel much more centered, energized, truer to my course.”-SK, musician