- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Melissa
Melissa Moore is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with ten years of experience in mental health work. She enjoys helping people sort through stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Melissa also guides clients who struggle with parenting concerns and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Her background includes clinical roles in home-based services, mental health agencies, hospitals, and schools. Melissa holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling.
Background and approach
She has worked with people facing mood disorders, grief, trauma and abuse, postpartum depression, and workplace stress. Melissa draws on practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy and Narrative and Psychodynamic approaches to help clients understand patterns and choose different responses.
Sessions focus on simple tools and clear steps people can use between meetings. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Melissa aims to build a steady, nonjudgmental space where people can name problems, test small changes, and track progress.
She pays attention to cultural background, attachment history, and caregiver stress when relevant to a person's goals. She helps people facing parenting stress, anger, sleep problems, low self-esteem, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Melissa works with concerns like abandonment, codependency, immigration-related issues, and coping after disasters.
Her practice centers on practical problem-solving along with exploration of deeper life patterns.
What Melissa works with
Everything Melissa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melissa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Melissa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT gives concrete exercises for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress-related parenting struggles.She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness can help with overwhelm, emotional reactivity, and coping during big life changes. Motivational Interviewing is used to clarify values and strengthen a person's own reasons for change, which can be helpful for workplace goals, self-care, or shifting parenting habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Melissa will work with each person to identify goals and test methods that fit their daily life and preferences. That means checking in about what helps, adjusting techniques, and combining methods when useful.
Online therapy offers scheduling flexibility and more ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick questions, brief support between sessions, or people who prefer typing to speaking.
Questions people ask about Melissa
What concerns does Melissa address?
Melissa works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting questions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and related areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. Sessions mix skill-building and reflection so clients leave with clear, usable steps.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of experience and has worked in home-based programs, mental health agencies, hospitals, and schools.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She holds the LCMHC credential and practices in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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