About Melissa
Melissa Meengs is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress along with related concerns like depression and trauma. Melissa aims to create a straightforward, approachable space where people can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses practical methods to help people manage panic, mood shifts, and overwhelming worry. Sessions often include learning new ways to respond to stressful thoughts and practicing skills that calm the body.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and breathing practices are introduced in simple steps that fit into daily life. Melissa also helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, attachment wounds, or the fallout from separation and divorce. She addresses feelings of shame, guilt, isolation, and low self-worth with clear tools and steady support.
Conversation focuses on immediate coping strategies and small changes that add up over time. Her approach blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with dialectical strategies and motivational methods. That mix supports people who want to change habits, manage intense emotions, or find greater purpose.
Melissa works side by side with clients to set realistic goals and track progress. Sessions are direct and practical. Melissa emphasizes skills people can use between meetings.
She welcomes English-speaking clients from Michigan and beyond who are looking for steady guidance through hard times.
Therapeutic approaches in remote care
Melissa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. CBT helps people reduce anxiety, manage panic attacks, and change behaviors that keep problems going. She also applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness for intense feelings and relationship conflict. Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help clients notice the present moment and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Melissa discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before to decide which methods to try. The plan is collaborative and adjusts over time based on what the client finds useful.
Online therapy lets people access sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflections, or reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistency and use the skills learned in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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