About Melanie
Melanie Griggs is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults who are facing big life changes, painful losses, or persistent worry. Her tone is steady and practical, focused on what clients need right now.
Melanie uses down-to-earth conversation to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She helps clients develop coping skills for sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, career stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse. Sessions blend thoughtful listening with practical tools. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful habits.
Mindfulness practices are offered to ease reactivity and improve emotional regulation. She often brings motivational interviewing into work around addictions, career changes, and other goals that require sustained effort. Trauma-focused methods are available for people who need to process painful past events while keeping current functioning in view.
Melanie practices in North Carolina and works in English. Her approach is collaborative - she helps each person choose strategies that fit their life and abilities. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person where they are. It helps people feel heard and respected while they figure out next steps for coping and change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and practice to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and grounding skills. These practices can ease reactivity, help with trauma symptoms, and improve emotional regulation over time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Melanie will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying concrete tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, regular contact between sessions and can support ongoing practice and check-ins.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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