About Melissa
Melissa Monahan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood struggles. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions straightforward so parents and busy adults can focus on practical steps. Her approach is relaxed and respectful, aimed at helping each person find what actually works for them.
Melissa emphasizes a client-centered way of working. That means she listens first and follows the person's lead when setting goals.
Background and approach
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts. She also draws on motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. Her background includes work with people affected by substance use and involvement with the criminal justice system.
Many of those clients also faced trauma, anxiety, or depression, and that experience shaped her practical focus on problem solving. She avoids labels and concentrates on everyday challenges and clear steps forward. Sessions aim to help with things like managing anger, coping with grief or guilt, reducing isolation, and finding better routines for mood and energy.
Melissa also supports people dealing with first responder stress, women's issues, and young adult transitions. She uses solution-focused conversation when someone wants direct action steps. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Melissa works to make the first sessions simple and accessible.
She partners with clients to set realistic targets and to practice skills between meetings. The goal is steady progress you can notice in daily life.
Using evidence-based approaches in online sessions
Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the person's lead, asks questions, and builds goals together to match what matters most. This approach helps when someone feels unsure where to start or needs help sorting priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and testing thoughts that lead to distress and practicing different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems where thinking patterns get in the way.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and then try techniques that fit those goals. That choice is collaborative and can change over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently.
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What this therapist works with
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- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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