About Melissa
Melissa Rohrbach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage stress, addiction, mood concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She draws on a range of therapy styles to help clients notice patterns and make small, workable changes. Melissa emphasizes practical next steps over long lectures.
She aims to make sessions feel focused and understandable. Melissa uses short-term strategies alongside deeper processing work depending on what someone needs.
Background and approach
Sessions can include skill practice for anxiety, tools to manage impulsivity, or talking through the impact of trauma and grief. She pays attention to how life transitions and caregiving demands affect everyday functioning. Her approach blends evidence-informed techniques with a person-centered stance.
People often come for help with relationships, self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, or to cope with bipolar disorder and depression. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, codependency, or the stresses of blended and adoptive family situations. Melissa notices both practical barriers and emotional patterns when planning goals.
Expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. Work may include direct skill coaching, problem-solving, and guided reflection. The pace is tailored to each person’s comfort and needs.
Melissa offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She works in English and practices in Missouri as an LPC. Her experience spans five years in clinical settings helping people pursue clearer routines, better coping, and improved daily functioning.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps set realistic goals for everyday life. This approach is often helpful for building trust and clarifying what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions may include identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and practicing skills to manage anxiety, mood, or impulsivity. CBT is useful for concrete symptoms like sleep problems, worry, or ADHD-related routines.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, called EMDR, supports processing of past upsetting events by using guided bilateral stimulation alongside talking. It can help reduce the hold of traumatic memories so daily functioning improves. The therapist will explain the process and propose it when it seems appropriate.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on how each session goes. Goals and methods are shaped by the client’s needs, preferences, and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video works well when visual cues help the process, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat suit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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