About Melissa
Melissa Pitts Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 16 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are stressed, dealing with anxiety, facing addictions, or managing depression. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate.
She aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and take small, useful steps forward. Melissa has worked in community mental health, tribal behavioral health, and independent practice. That range of settings shaped how she listens and responds.
Background and approach
She draws on practical methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work to break problems into manageable pieces. In sessions she builds an open, nonjudgmental space for clients to share thoughts and feelings. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change.
Mindfulness practices and breathing work are offered when helpful, and she sometimes brings gentle yoga ideas into the session. Her focus includes grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep troubles, parenting concerns, and career stress. She also supports people coping with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and co-occurring substance use concerns.
Melissa helps clients identify practical coping skills and realistic goals. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Sessions combine talk, skill practice, and short homework that fits into daily life.
Melissa describes the first step as a small act of courage, and she works to make that step feel clear and doable.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s needs and values and helps shape sessions around what matters most. This approach supports people who feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start and helps build a trusting, collaborative relationship.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, sleep troubles, and many stress-related concerns because it breaks issues into clear steps and practices.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices can be paired with talk work and short at-home exercises to ease anxiety and support emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily routine. Sessions often blend styles so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and demonstrations, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching. These options make it easier to schedule appointments around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities, and to continue care from wherever the client is located in Oklahoma.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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