About Melissa
Melissa Moore is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She brings ten years of experience in the mental health field and combines practical skills with a down-to-earth style. Melissa focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life transitions.
She takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. Sessions focus on clear goals and real strategies that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Melissa uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Her background includes work in home-based care, mental health agencies, hospitals, and schools. Melissa holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Master of Science with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling.
That mix of settings helps her adapt to different needs and routines. In session she listens for what matters most and helps break problems into manageable steps. She also draws on narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at life stories and relationship patterns when those issues come up.
Motivational interviewing is used to support changes people actually want to make. People meet practical exercises, reflective conversation, and short-term skill-building. Melissa aims to help clients use their strengths to handle day-to-day challenges like sleep trouble, workplace stress, parenting strain, grief, and compassion fatigue.
The focus is on steady progress and workable plans.
How Melissa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Melissa often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes to feel better. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and workplace stress.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practices can help with stress, emotional regulation, and sleep difficulties by teaching short, practical exercises to use during the day.
Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to support change. It helps people clarify what matters to them and take the next realistic steps toward goals like improving routines, managing ADHD-related challenges, or changing work habits.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest options tailored to those priorities. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what works and what doesn’t.
Online sessions provide flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. Those options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, parenting schedules, and busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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