About Melissa
Melissa Rohrbach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and addiction. She brings five years of counseling experience and a calm, practical manner to sessions. Melissa aims to help people feel less stuck and more able to move forward with everyday life.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps clients set clear, doable goals. Sessions emphasize small, practical steps that fit into a client's daily routine.
Background and approach
Melissa uses talk therapy alongside tools that help manage strong feelings and upsetting memories. She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, relationship and intimacy problems, and parenting stress. She also supports people dealing with sleep or eating difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, and career or life transition issues.
Melissa includes attention to substance use and addiction when those problems are present. Clinical methods she uses include Client-Centered Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, EMDR for processing trauma, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. She adapts techniques to what each person needs and what makes sense in the moment.
Sessions are practical and collaborative, with a focus on building skills that last. Melissa practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple online session formats so people can choose the way that works best for them.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with the right scheduling option and therapist.
How Melissa Uses Practical Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It helps people feel heard and shapes the work around their priorities and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Melissa will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend methods that match those needs. She adapts techniques over time, using what works and shifting if something doesn't fit the person or the situation.
Online sessions come in several formats to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when less bandwidth is needed or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer short, frequent check-ins or real-time support between longer sessions. These options help people fit counseling into work, family responsibilities, and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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