About Melissa
Melissa Fogle is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, as well as those healing from trauma and abuse. Melissa also supports people facing grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
With 21 years of experience, she takes a calm, straightforward approach in sessions. She works alongside clients to identify what feels most urgent and to set small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and focused on skills people can use between sessions. Melissa uses techniques drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. She blends these approaches with open listening so clients can process difficult emotions and learn coping tools.
The aim is to reduce overwhelming symptoms and increase daily functioning. She pays attention to everyday stresses like caregiver burden, communication problems, control issues, guilt, and struggles with life purpose or self-love. Sessions can include skill-building, emotion regulation, and guided processing of painful memories.
Melissa explains options clearly and helps people choose what feels right for them. Beginning therapy can feel hard. Melissa emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where clients are heard.
She partners with people as they work toward clearer thinking, steadier moods, and a more meaningful day-to-day life.
Online approaches that fit anxious minds and trauma healing
Melissa uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy - often called DBT - to teach practical skills for handling strong emotions, reducing panic, and improving relationships. DBT offers short exercises for grounding, mindfulness, and building routines that lower day-to-day stress.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, to help people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge. EMDR sessions guide clients through focused recalling alongside guided stimulation to help painful memories feel less overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melissa collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. She explains options, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy makes scheduling and access easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat work well for quick check-ins or when a shorter response fits a busy day. These formats give flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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