About Melissa
Melissa Pickett is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of experience. She practices in Kentucky as an LPCC and LPC and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Melissa aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can begin feeling better sooner.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas and client-centered listening. She uses tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Gottman Method when helpful, and adapts methods to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear skills, small experiments, and real-life practice between meetings. Melissa has worked with a wide range of concerns including OCD, addictions, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and mood disorders. She also supports people facing issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, body image, and postpartum depression.
The work often focuses on building coping skills, reducing intense reactions, and improving daily routines. In sessions she listens first, then suggests simple steps to try. Therapy may include short exposures, thought-challenging, mindfulness exercises, or communication practice with partners.
Progress is tracked in practical ways so people can see changes over time. Clients who prefer a focused, down-to-earth style often find this approach helpful. Melissa works with clients to set clear goals and adjust methods as needed.
She encourages steady steps and realistic expectations while offering steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without being ruled by them and focuses on taking actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to challenge worry and change patterns that keep anxiety and depression going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships when emotion regulation is a central issue.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily life. Methods can be adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is helpful for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, cope during life transitions, and continue work when travel or time constraints arise.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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