About Melissa
Melissa Pierce is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She aims to meet people where they are and focus on the changes they want to make. Her style is respectful and straightforward, with an emphasis on practical steps and clear communication.
Melissa tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s needs. She creates a calm, non-judgmental space where clients can talk about trauma, intimacy-related issues, anger, or struggles with sleeping.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing relationship concerns, identity and LGBT-related stress, and chronic health or caregiver burdens. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation.
She also uses EMDR for processing traumatic memories when appropriate and existential ideas to explore meaning and values. Melissa practices in Texas as an LPC and brings two decades of experience to each session. She is familiar with a wide range of concerns, including attachment issues, body image, commitment problems, and coping after disasters.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on practical tools clients can use between meetings. People who choose her often want clear, steady guidance and a therapist who listens without judging. She supports clients through a step-by-step process toward better coping, improved sleep, and more manageable day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping clients shape their own goals. It emphasizes respectful dialogue and building understanding of what matters most to the person seeking help.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. Online CBT sessions typically include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation can be taught and practiced during video or phone sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean starting with one approach and adjusting over time based on how things are going.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports shorter or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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