About Eva
Eva "Melissa" Gadd offers calm, steady support for people struggling with anxiety and related concerns. She listens with patience and helps clients sort through immediate problems. Her manner is direct and warm, aimed at making short-term work feel manageable for busy lives.
Melissa earned a Master of Social Work degree and has 25 years of experience working in medical social work and therapy roles. She brings practical skills from many settings and draws on real-world experience when helping people cope with change.
Background and approach
She works with issues such as stress, depression, grief, panic attacks, social anxiety, and mood disorders. Melissa also helps people facing life transitions - like becoming a parent, coping with caregiving, shifting health, or adjusting to an empty nest. She pays attention to how life circumstances affect daily well-being.
Therapy sessions combine Client-Centered listening with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Mindfulness approaches when they fit a person's goals. Melissa focuses on practical steps, identifying strengths, and clear strategies that clients can try between sessions.
The style is collaborative and paced to the individual. Melissa helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills, and notice small progress. Her aim is to make therapy useful and reachable, even when schedules are tight.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. Sessions begin with open conversation so goals and priorities become clear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, panic and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and process strong feelings to improve emotional connection and regulation.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Melissa works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts techniques over time so therapy stays useful rather than fixed to one model.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief updates, asking questions between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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