About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Echevarria Baez is a Florida psychologist who focuses on practical approaches for everyday problems. She speaks English and Spanish and uses clear, step-by-step methods to help people manage anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and life transitions.
She has nine years of clinical experience and offers caring, goal-focused support. Her work blends several evidence-informed approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her toolkit for helping clients clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward a life they want. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to help people find what matters and build on their strengths.
That practical mix is often useful for grief, self-esteem concerns, career questions, and coping with chronic pain or illness. Sessions tend to emphasize short-term goals and tools clients can use between meetings. Dr.
Echevarria works with people who want coaching-style support alongside therapy. She helps clients sort communication problems and explore life purpose while addressing symptoms like sleeplessness. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aiming to make progress feel realistic and manageable.
Therapy is offered in formats that fit different schedules, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. People who prefer English or Spanish can work in the language they are most comfortable using.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people identify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or pain is present. It emphasizes living a meaningful life rather than trying to eliminate every unpleasant feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior that keep anxiety or sleep problems going, with practical exercises and homework between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve concentration, which can help with stress, grief, and chronic pain.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan as needed to find the best fit for the person's life and schedule.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and guided exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief coaching and reminders between sessions. These options help people keep momentum and fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Life purpose
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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