About Melissa
Melissa Button is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people working through stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with addiction. She focuses on practical skills that reduce daily distress and build more confidence. Her approach centers on the person in front of her and what matters to them.
She begins by building rapport and getting a clear sense of each person's priorities. From there she helps identify small, usable steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be conversational and focused on real-world coping tools rather than abstract theory. Melissa blends several evidence-informed approaches to meet different needs. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and interpersonal skills. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. Her work also addresses caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, workplace problems, and feelings of isolation or shame.
She supports people navigating midlife transitions, money stress, and traumatic brain injury concerns. Melissa frames these topics in concrete goals and step-by-step strategies. With 15 years of professional experience and a New York LMHC credential, she aims to collaborate with each person as the expert on their own life.
She emphasizes strengths and practical coping so people can move toward clearer priorities and more reliable day-to-day functioning.
Approach and access for online therapy
Melissa draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors with concrete exercises. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when life feels overwhelming.She approaches treatment collaboratively and will work with each person to find the best-fit methods. That means trying practical techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and texting or live chat provides brief check-ins and between-session support. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days with limited time while keeping focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
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- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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