About Melissa
Melissa Schreiber is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and addiction. She works with individuals facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, anger, and life transitions. Her style is warm and direct.
She aims to help people feel heard and find practical steps forward. In sessions she listens closely to each person's story and priorities. Melissa uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new coping skills. For relationship concerns she uses elements of the Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to improve communication and strengthen emotional connection. She also brings existential ideas when people wrestle with meaning, loss, or big life choices.
The work balances feeling understood with learning concrete skills. Melissa has worked across many issues that often overlap, including family-of-origin problems, codependency, domestic violence, substance use, and intimacy-related struggles. She supports people dealing with grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and those living with HIV or hearing impairments.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled from North Carolina. Melissa accepts international clients and uses a flexible session model to fit different needs. Her goal is to help people build resilience and clearer next steps in life.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Melissa often uses client-centered therapy to put the client's perspective first and build a trusting, goal-focused relationship. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and wants a therapist to follow the topics that matter most to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing patterns of thought and behavior and then trying small, practical changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and many everyday problems where new skills can reduce distress.
When relationship strain is the main issue, she draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people articulate and respond to core emotions that drive interaction patterns. This can improve emotional connection and communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between sessions. These options make scheduling easier for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location does she hold?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are offered?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.