About Melissa
Melissa Hummelt is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on building a trusting relationship and meeting people where they are. Melissa aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes find clearer ways forward.
She uses a problem-solving style rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and psychodynamic ideas are mixed in when they match a person's needs. Motivational interviewing is used to support change when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Melissa has worked in mental health for many years and completed a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
She has been offering online care for nearly a decade and brings experience with addiction, mood difficulties, postpartum concerns, and fertility-related stress among other issues. Sessions are designed to be collaborative and practical. Melissa helps people set goals, try small experiments, and learn skills they can use between meetings.
The focus is on learning what helps in daily life rather than on clinical labels. She provides sessions in English and practices in California. Communication options include live chat and asynchronous messaging as described by the therapist, and Melissa uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Melissa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is goal-oriented and works well for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.She also brings mindfulness therapy into sessions to teach simple practices for managing intense emotions and bringing attention back to the present moment. These skills can reduce reactivity and improve daily coping in small, practical ways.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills, deeper patterns, motivation for change, or a mix of methods.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Shorter text check-ins can fit a busy day, live chat allows more immediate back-and-forth, and phone or video sessions support longer conversations and skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington
- Languages
- English