About Melissa
Melissa Timlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Melissa writes plainly and focuses on helping each person take small, useful steps forward.
She draws on practical therapy methods to help people change patterns that no longer serve them. Sessions often include skill-building, problem-solving, and gentle mindfulness practices such as body-scan meditation and breath work.
Background and approach
Melissa emphasizes the client as the expert on their life and uses that perspective to shape goals and choices. Her background includes work in addiction counseling and mental health across clinical settings. She also served ten years on active duty in the U.S.
Navy, where she advised on drug and alcohol programs and supported sexual assault response efforts. That experience informs her calm, direct approach to difficult topics. In sessions she blends structured techniques with more experiential practices.
That means using ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside restorative yoga elements when helpful. The focus is on practical tools people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and handle stressful moments. Melissa provides care from Missouri as a Michigan and Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor.
She offers phone, video, chat, and text options to fit different schedules and needs. The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking, stronger coping, and a greater sense of purpose.
Therapeutic options and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build different ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most useful over time.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text are useful for brief updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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