About Melissa
Melissa Quigley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports people coping with grief, depression, addictions, and major life changes. Her style is warm, approachable, and straightforward to help reduce overwhelm during hard moments.
Melissa draws on twelve years of experience in outpatient programs, partial hospitalization, and community behavioral health settings. She has worked in roles that included clinical supervision and program direction.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with crisis situations, de-escalation, and treatment planning across varied care settings. In sessions she keeps things interactive and practical. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
Melissa mixes conversational, client-centered talk with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based methods to address thoughts, behaviors, and daily routines. She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and psychodynamic ideas to help uncover patterns that affect current struggles. These approaches are used alongside straightforward problem solving for sleep, anger, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.
Clients can expect a respectful, compassionate tone and collaborative planning. Melissa focuses on helping people build coping skills they can use between sessions. Her aim is to make progress feel manageable and relevant to each person's life.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and understood; it helps people clarify what matters most and set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention practices to help reduce reactivity and improve concentration in daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan stays useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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