I am a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor with 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. I specialize in counseling children, adolescents, and adult who have been victims of crime. I also work with behavioral issues, relationship issues between parents and children (RAD), adoption issues, divorce issues, issues related to parental use of drugs and alcohol, and I offer parental guidance. With adults and adolescents, I also offer counseling on addiction, depression, anxiety, divorce, and mental health concerns.
I have been a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor since 2000. I use multiple trauma focused therapies including Eye-Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing, Thought Field Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I am a Certified Mediator and I do work with immigration including: Hardship Waivers, N-648s, and U-visas.
I am an immigration approved therapist and I perform psychological evaluations for immigration and for court. I also administer assessments for depression, anxiety, ADHD, and Substance abuse. I accept BCBS, Cigna, and Crime Victim's Compensation for those who qualify.
I am also a Certified Hypnotist and provide hypnosis for quit smoking, weight loss, motivation, and various other mental health difficulties.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hearing impaired, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Immigration issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
TX LPC 63513
WA LMHC LH61263346
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Melissa has been a great help to me. She realized what my problem was and gave me the right direction to settle the issues I was having.
Written on May 28, 2024 after therapy with Melissa for 2 weeks on issues concerning coping with life changes, and adhd
I’ve been seeing Melissa for a couple weeks now and she’s awesome! I appreciate her listening to me and giving me helpful tips.
Written on May 06, 2024 after therapy with Melissa for 2 weeks on issues concerning addictions, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem
Melissa is very knowledgeable, patient and cares about her patients.
Written on Feb 18, 2023 after therapy with Melissa for 8 months on issues concerning relationship issues, and family conflicts
Writing this at the end of a year where my partner and I began our exploration into ethical non-monogamy and I realized I had a lot of unresolved issues with anxiety and jealousy that I wasn't managing well at the time. Melissa was a great resource for me to get my feelings out about what I was experiencing and was able to offer other tools for me to help manage said anxieties about opening up the relationship. That was back towards maybe August or so, and wrapping up the year in December, I am feeling much more confident in my choices. I feel I have better tools to manage myself when a wave of anxiety washes over me. Melissa was a great person to talk to through these past several months and i was able to feel heard and validated in what I was experiencing, as well as being appropriately told when I was perhaps being unfair to my partner and how I could discuss things with them.
This was my first time going to therapy, and I was very impressed with how Melissa was able to work with me when I needed her help.
Written on Dec 16, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue
Excellent therapist with intuitive understanding of a diverse set of issues, and a therapeutic toolset geared toward wellness and self-development over medication. 110% Reccommended!
Written on Dec 13, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd
Melissa helped me navigate some challanging relationships with loved ones who are addicts. She is compassionate, insitful and truly listens.
Written on Sep 23, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue