We help people build extraordinary relationships by becoming whole first.
Sacred Heart Dating is the home of The Love Academy, The Demo Date, and our private matchmaking practice. Through coaching, education, matchmaking and practical biblical wisdom, we help people heal from the past, grow in emotional maturity, hear God's wisdom, communicate with confidence, and build relationships that last.
We don't simply teach people how to date. We help them become the kind of person who naturally attracts healthy love.
We teach people how to date well — and then we stay, through choosing wisely, building slowly, and sustaining the love they've found.
To see marriages restored, families strengthened, and generations transformed by helping people experience healthy love rooted in truth, wisdom, emotional health, and God's design for relationships.
Healthy relationships begin long before two people ever meet.
We don't believe lasting relationships are built through manipulation, dating tricks, or surface-level attraction.
Everything we teach is designed to help people become emotionally healthy, spiritually grounded, relationally intelligent, and deeply authentic.
Rather than focusing on finding "the one," we focus on becoming someone capable of building an extraordinary relationship with the right person.
Our goal isn't simply to help you find love. Our goal is to help you become someone capable of creating a relationship that continues to flourish for decades.
Taylor Diazmercado
Taylor Diazmercado has spent more than a decade studying what makes relationships thrive. Her journey has taken her from the world of professional modeling and high-performance dating coaching to a life devoted to helping people heal, grow, and build relationships rooted in wisdom, emotional health, and lasting love.
Today, Taylor serves as an elite matchmaker, relationship coach, and ordained minister, helping faith-driven men and women become the kind of people who create extraordinary marriages—not simply find them.
Having worked with clients across the world, Taylor combines practical relationship strategy, communication psychology, attachment awareness, emotional intelligence, and biblical wisdom into a coaching style that is both compassionate and deeply transformative. Her clients don't just improve their dating lives—they experience greater confidence, stronger boundaries, healthier relationships, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Taylor believes the greatest relationship you'll ever build is the one that shapes every other relationship: the one with God, yourself, and then others. Her passion is helping people restore what life has wounded so they can love from wholeness instead of fear.
As co-founder of The Love Academy, Taylor teaches individuals, couples, and leaders how to cultivate emotional maturity, healthy masculinity and femininity, secure attachment, effective communication, and Christ-centered relationships. Whether she's coaching privately, speaking, creating educational content, or matching clients with their future spouse, her mission remains the same: to help people become fully alive—and build relationships that reflect the love they were created for.
Melissa Howe
Melissa Howe is the Co-Founder of Sacred Heart Dating, a matchmaker and relationship strategist dedicated to helping intentional singles build healthy, lasting relationships through discernment, coaching, and intentional introductions.
Melissa believes the modern dating industry has focused too heavily on helping people meet—and not enough on helping them choose well. While dating apps have made connection more accessible than ever, they have also made discernment more difficult. Her work is built on the belief that healthy relationships are not found by chance, but through wisdom, emotional maturity, compatibility, and intentional decision-making.
That philosophy has shaped a model that sets her work apart. Melissa believes coaching and matchmaking should never exist without one another. Matchmaking without coaching leaves people unsupported. Coaching without matchmaking leaves people prepared but without meaningful opportunities to apply what they've learned. By bringing both together, she helps clients navigate every stage of the dating journey with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Her approach combines intentional matchmaking with relationship coaching, compatibility evaluation, communication guidance, post-date feedback, and ongoing support. Rather than relying on chemistry alone, Melissa helps clients evaluate relationships through multiple lenses, including character, emotional health, attraction, shared values, lifestyle compatibility, communication, and long-term relationship potential.
Melissa works with professionals, entrepreneurs, and marriage-minded individuals who are ready to move beyond endless swiping, mixed signals, and surface-level dating. Her clients aren't simply looking for more introductions—they're looking for better decisions, healthier relationships, and a thoughtful path toward lasting love.
At the heart of Melissa's work is a simple belief: finding the right person matters, but learning how to recognize and build the right relationship matters even more.
"Taylor helped me understand my heart. Melissa helped me understand my nervous system. I genuinely feel like a different person."
Come and tell us where you are.
Thirty minutes, no pressure. We'll listen, tell you honestly whether we can help, and point you to the right door.