About Melissa
Melissa Hummelt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strain, or major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on building a trusting working relationship so clients feel heard and understood.
She earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has about 15 years of experience in the mental health field.
Background and approach
Much of her work has been with adults facing mood struggles, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and fertility- or pregnancy-related challenges. In sessions she often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered therapy and mindfulness skills to help people notice patterns and calm their nervous system in everyday life.
Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas may also appear when useful to clarify values and past influences. Melissa has provided online care for many years and offers flexible interaction styles to fit different needs. She supports people working through postpartum depression, eating and food-related issues, self-esteem concerns, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress.
Her approach centers on collaboration and practical steps that fit each person's life. People who want straightforward guidance combined with a respectful, nonjudgmental tone may find her approach a good match. She aims to help clients build coping skills, make clearer choices, and move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship and putting the person's goals first. In online sessions this means conversations are paced around what matters to the client and practical steps are agreed on together.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety and mood problems and replaces them with experiments and small behavior changes. CBT online works well for stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and many everyday concerns because homework and tracking tools fit easily into remote formats.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These short practices can be guided during a call or sent as brief exercises to practice between contacts.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals, history, and what feels useful. Clients can expect clear explanations, trial periods for different techniques, and ongoing check-ins about what helps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. This mix makes it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington
- Languages
- English
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