About Melissa
Melissa Eugley is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at reducing overwhelm and improving daily functioning.
Melissa keeps sessions focused and goal-oriented while staying flexible to each person's needs. She listens first, then helps set small, achievable steps for change.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based strategies and mindfulness to build coping skills and emotional balance. Many clients come for help with relationship patterns, communication problems, or family of origin issues. Melissa also supports people dealing with impulsivity, guilt and shame, and recovery from domestic violence or substance use concerns.
She works with life transitions such as divorce, blended family adjustments, and the strain of disasters or sudden loss. Her approach draws on several therapeutic methods to match what each person needs. Melissa blends cognitive strategies to address unhelpful thoughts with acceptance and mindfulness to improve daily coping.
She also uses trauma-focused tools when needed to process past experiences in a paced way. Melissa holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and practices in Florida. She has six years of clinical experience and offers sessions in English.
To begin, prospective clients follow the site’s matching steps to schedule time and choose a session format that fits their life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often helps when stress, anxiety, or chronic patterns make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and behavior. It teaches concrete skills to change thinking habits and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that can help people process past distressing memories in a paced way to reduce their emotional impact.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to try methods that fit their goals and comfort level. The plan can change over time as needs shift, and she mixes tools to match a client's priorities and progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep steady contact during recovery and growth.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington
- Languages
- English