About Melissa
Melissa Fraser is a Vermont-licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with four years of experience offering one-on-one therapy through telehealth. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Melissa centers sessions on the person's strengths and goals.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. Her style is person-centered. That means she listens first and helps people clarify what matters to them.
Background and approach
She combines solution-focused ideas with cognitive-behavioral techniques to build practical skills. Sessions typically include identifying small, doable changes and practicing new ways of responding to hard moments. Melissa also attends to relationship-related concerns such as attachment, abandonment, and communication problems.
She works with mood and impulse challenges, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress by breaking issues into concrete steps. The work often moves between short-term coping strategies and longer-term shifts in thinking and behavior. Therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Melissa encourages collaboration - clients set goals and she supports progress at a steady pace. She describes therapy as a shared process where the client is the expert and the clinician is a guide. Practical details about scheduling, cost, and how sessions run are handled through the platform’s matching and booking tools.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Practical approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Mentioned approaches include person-centered work, solution-focused techniques, and cognitive-behavioral methods. Person-centered work means sessions begin with listening to the client’s story and priorities so goals come from what matters to them. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on clear, short-term goals and small steps that build momentum. Cognitive-behavioral methods look at how thoughts and actions interact and teach skills to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their needs, goals, and preferences. That discussion happens over the first few sessions and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging let people manage brief check-ins and continue work between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, family, or school commitments and make it easier to keep a steady routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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