About Melissa
Melissa Hunt is a licensed social worker with 18 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier. Melissa listens without judgment and works alongside clients to find what helps in their daily lives.
She addresses a wide range of concerns, including addictions, parenting strains, career struggles, and family problems. Melissa pays attention to how past relationships and family of origin issues affect present choices.
Background and approach
She also helps people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment difficulties, and blended family issues. Her style is straightforward and warm. Sessions often involve talking through patterns, practicing new communication skills, and trying small behavioral changes between visits.
Melissa uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to reduce worry and manage impulsivity. When trauma or painful memories are part of the picture, she integrates approaches aimed at processing those experiences. Motivational interviewing is used when clients want support changing substance use or other addictive behaviors.
Melissa helps people focus on clear goals and step-by-step progress. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship that balances emotional support with concrete tools. She works with individuals to explore life purpose, resolve family conflict, and build resilience for everyday stressors.
Melissa practices from Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches you can use through online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and building a trusting, collaborative relationship. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and decide what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks worries and unhelpful habits into steps you can work on. It uses simple exercises and real-life practice to reduce anxiety and shift patterns that keep people stuck.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for regulating intense emotions and improving communication. It is useful for impulsivity, relationship conflict, and managing strong mood shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together the therapist and client try methods and adjust as progress unfolds so the plan fits real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions let people see facial expressions and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, writing out thoughts, or keeping momentum between live sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to attend.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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