About Melissa
Melissa Adcock is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life transitions. She uses clear, practical talk to make difficult feelings easier to name and handle. Melissa brings 11 years of clinical experience and a calm, direct style to sessions.
She keeps things straightforward in the room. Sessions focus on what matters now and where clients want to go next. Melissa draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thinking and solution-focused steps to set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Her approach also includes client-centered methods that follow each person’s pace. Melissa offers skills from DBT when people need tools for strong emotions or better emotion regulation. She mixes these methods into a plan that fits the person sitting across from her.
Melissa trained in social work and holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, along with CSW. She moved to Colorado after years of practice in other states and has experience across many settings and populations. That background informs how she adapts therapy to different life situations.
In a first session she listens to where a person is struggling and what they hope to change. Then she and the client pick a few clear steps to try. Therapy is collaborative and practical, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day demands.
How Melissa’s approaches fit online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals. Online sessions let that work continue through conversation, check-ins, and reflective questions that help someone name what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and acting. In video or phone sessions Melissa can guide thought records, coach through behavioral experiments, and set homework between meetings to test new skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings. Those skills translate well to brief coaching during chat or text exchanges and to practice in between video sessions when a quick reminder or skill rehearsal is useful.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. Melissa will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan over time if something isn’t working or if priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy in the moments it matters.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Florida
- Languages
- English
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