Founder

Melissa Craft has worked in the petroleum industry as a mentor, leader, and instructor. For 15+ years, she has held various roles of responsibility within leadership as a successful entrepreneur and a servant of her peers in the workplace. The majority of her time was spent working with Integrity Engineering along with Data & Reporting. Her career started in Compliance and Regulatory Affairs in Offshore operations helping build a Management System (post BP Macondo Blowout) and she supported Production Operations, Drilling & Completions & Facilities/Construction, Asset Integrity, focused on Corrosion and Erosion, operating procedure writing, technical writing, action item & lessons learned tracking with mastery experience in KPI/Data & Reporting. Melissa has successfully assisted in the launch and sustainability plan for HRIS SAP LMS Success Factors, SAP S4 HANA, companywide for 6000+ employees. Built CBT’s, set up training courses and catalogs to hold, manage & assign courses to ensure competency for compliance & career growth management; building and managing over 500 courses pulling into Spotfire & Power BI Dashboards to show real-time visualizations to ensure each business line was in compliance for safety, career planning and regulatory requirements.

As a plane crash survivor and one who has fully recovered from trauma, Melissa started pursuing her passion in ministry in 2020. In 2021, Melissa launched a 501©3 non-profit serving Veterans and First Responders impacted by Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) after starting her journey through Seminary school to obtain her Masters and PhD. During her youth, Melissa actively pursued the scriptural commandment to“love your neighbor as yourself”by modeling the life of Jesus to many of the hurting people she encountered everywhere she went. She has committed hundreds of hours to serving Christ by her Leadership and attendance of Bible Studies, Volunteering for Non-Profit organizations, online teachings and doing independent crusade evangelism by praying and mentoring those less fortunate in need of hope. While Melissa still works actively as an Integrity Engineer in Oil & Gas, she offers counseling (Revive-Coaching.com) and equine services to Veterans and First Responders after hours and on weekends (www.LoveHopeRanch.org).

Melissa currently holds a Bachelor of Science in Business with a focus in Marketing and Minor in Psychology from The University of Mary-Hardin Baylor. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Pastoral Counseling, backed by the NCCA, and set to complete her PhD in 2026. She is a certified Temperament Specialist backed by the NCCA and serves Families/Marriage, Youth, Abuse & Trauma/PTS in her Counseling/Coaching private practice. Most recently Melissa finished her RBLP-T Training and will be implementing this Leadership/Resilience Building Training into her Veteran and First Responder work. She is so excited to see what the future holds for her blended world of Corporate Leadership thru Oil & Gas Consulting, Equine Experiential learning and Counseling Services for our Hero’s. Melissa is a loving friend and mother raising two amazing children who are the center of her world. Aubrey and Asher are blessed to have this rare opportunity to experience Equine Therapy from the forefront and see the impacts of mental health from the front row. Melissa says that growing up with horses changed her life and she feels so blessed to allow her children this same experience of healing power, friendship, responsibility, self-awareness, connection, and joy that only horses bring.