About Melissa
Melissa Wood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. She meets with adults and adolescents and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at reducing overwhelm so clients can move forward.
With 14 years of experience, Melissa blends problem-focused techniques with conversations that clarify values and goals. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy helps clients set short-term goals and practice small, concrete changes that add up over time. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Melissa prioritizes creating a calm, friendly space where clients can talk about relationship stress, parenting strain, grief, trauma reactions, or workplace problems.
She also supports people dealing with addiction, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and intimacy concerns. Practical tools and homework are part of the work when they fit a person’s goals. Clients leave sessions with simple skills to use between meetings, such as breathing techniques, thought records, or brief behavior experiments.
Progress is measured in small, observable steps rather than abstract ideas. Melissa works from South Carolina and conducts sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. All conversations are aimed at helping each person find manageable ways to cope and regain confidence.
How Melissa’s approaches translate to online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety or low mood and then practicing new ways of thinking and acting. It works well for stress, social anxiety, depression, and many ADHD-related patterns by breaking down problems into manageable steps. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes setting short-term, concrete goals and using small experiments to create change quickly. This approach is useful when someone wants clear, measurable progress and prefers practical tasks over long-term exploration. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Melissa will talk with each person about their goals and try techniques that match those aims. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan based on results and personal preference. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging makes brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions, which can help sustain progress over time.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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