About Melissa
Melissa Campos offers direct, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life transitions. She writes in plain terms and focuses on doable steps. Her goal is to help clients get clearer about what matters and to build everyday routines that reduce distress and raise wellbeing.
Melissa holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential (LMHC) and brings sixteen years of clinical experience in Florida. Her sessions emphasize listening first.
Background and approach
She creates space for people to say what’s hard and what they want instead. From there she and the client set small, concrete goals. Those goals often include skills for managing strong emotions, improving sleep, and handling relationship strain.
Melissa uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on what matters to each person. For trauma-related concerns she may include EMDR-informed strategies when appropriate.
She works with a wide range of issues, including depression, addictions, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Melissa speaks English and Spanish and brings practical problem-solving to career or caregiving stress as well. Therapy with her often blends skill practice, real-life planning, and checking how changes feel.
Sessions are available by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
How treatment approaches work online with Melissa
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters to a person and taking committed steps toward those values while learning to tolerate uncomfortable feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and major life changes by shifting attention to meaningful actions rather than getting stuck on unwanted thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, insomnia, mood problems, and managing stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) targets memories tied to trauma and can reduce the emotional intensity of painful recollections when used as part of a broader treatment plan.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Melissa will talk with each client about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan as progress or new needs appear, working collaboratively to find what helps most for daily life and relationships.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or days when a shorter contact fits better. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish