About Melissa
Melissa Quigley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, ADHD, and other life changes. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and interactive, and she aims to tailor sessions to each person's goals.
Melissa draws on twelve years of clinical experience across outpatient programs, partial hospitalization, and independent practice. She has worked in settings focused on mental health and addiction, and has experience supervising and directing community behavioral health programs.
Background and approach
That background informs how she plans treatment and supports practical change. In sessions she emphasizes clear communication and respect. Melissa uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small experiments.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper relationship patterns when helpful. Her approach tends to be collaborative and straightforward. She works with clients to set achievable goals, practice new skills, and adjust plans when life shifts.
Melissa also has experience with crisis management and de-escalation from intensive clinical settings. People who value a supportive, goal-oriented therapist often find her approach helpful. She speaks English and offers sessions using remote formats.
Melissa encourages honesty and small steps, and she aims to be a steady, encouraging presence while clients work toward change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist provides empathy and helps people identify their own goals and choices, which can be useful for stress, relationship problems, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps people spot unhelpful patterns and practice small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Mindfulness therapy teaches skills to notice the present moment without judgment. These practices can help with anxiety, compulsive habits, and managing strong emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and how they respond in early sessions. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for full face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can help people fit therapy into a busy day or keep a written record of progress. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across changing schedules and locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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