About Melissa
Melissa Moore is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with ten years of experience in the mental health field. She works from North Carolina and draws on a mix of approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. Her practical aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day pressures.
She earned graduate degrees in counseling, including a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Anna Maria College.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in homes, mental health agencies, hospitals, and school settings, which shaped a flexible, down-to-earth practice. In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside narrative and psychodynamic ideas. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try different responses, and also look at how past patterns affect current feelings.
She also draws on motivational interviewing to support practical change. Melissa addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, self-esteem, and workplace stress. She also supports people facing parenting stress, caregiver strain, attachment and abandonment issues, immigration concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She focuses on short-term strategies and longer-term understanding so people can use what they learn between sessions. Melissa aims to create a calm, reliable space where people can work toward clearer goals and more manageable days.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Melissa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns of thinking that increase anxiety and stress, and then practice different, more helpful responses. This approach is action oriented and works well for sleep problems, mood shifts, and everyday worries.She also integrates mindfulness techniques to help people notice sensations and emotions without getting swept away by them. Mindfulness can make it easier to calm the body and reduce reactivity during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Melissa collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. She combines short-term tools and deeper exploration so clients can try new skills between sessions and track what feels useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are helpful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in fits a schedule. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or updates between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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