About Melissa
Melissa Murray is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with 12 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aiming to help people move forward from what holds them back.
She uses practical, evidence-informed methods in session. That can include talking through patterns in relationships, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and building skills for emotional regulation.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to be calm, nonjudgmental spaces where clients set the pace and goals. Murray combines client-centered listening with structured tools when useful. She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early bonds affect current relationships.
Cognitive strategies are used to notice and shift thought patterns that increase worry or low mood. Over her career she has supported people dealing with trauma, OCD, bipolar concerns, and life transitions. She also works with clients facing identity and LGBT-related challenges, caregiving stress, and end-of-life or hospice issues.
Her background includes helping people manage obsessional thinking and seasonal mood shifts. Sessions are offered in English and are for adults age 18 and up. Melissa aims to treat each person with sensitivity and compassion while helping them take practical steps toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Melissa uses client-centered therapy to create a warm, accepting space where the person sets goals and drives the pace. This approach helps people talk through concerns, feel heard, and identify what matters most to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, obsessive thinking, and practical coping during life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on the client's needs and preferences. Together they choose methods that fit the person's goals and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging is useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity of care when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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