About Melissa
Melissa Pickett is a licensed counselor who brings nine years of experience to her practice in Kentucky. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues with relationships and family. She is credentialed as an LPCC and an LPC and uses straightforward, practical strategies in session.
Melissa focuses on building a calm, steady space where people can talk through what hurts. She listens first, then helps set small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings to handle stress, intense feelings, or difficult conversations. Her approach blends methods like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, and tools from dialectical behavior therapy. She also incorporates relationship-focused techniques grounded in the Gottman Method for couples conversations and connection work.
Melissa has worked with a wide range of concerns including OCD, addictions, bipolar mood issues, postpartum depression, grief, and parenting strain. She also addresses attachment wounds, body image, guilt and shame, dissociation, and compulsive behaviors. Her aim is to help people regain stability and move toward clearer daily routines.
In sessions she prefers a collaborative style. People can expect practical exercises, direct talk about patterns, and a plan for handling stressful moments. The focus is on steady progress and skills that fit real life.
For those ready to begin, Melissa guides the initial steps so scheduling and format match what will work best for each person.
Approach-focused care for online sessions
Melissa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, and it can help with anxiety, depression, OCD, and mood swings.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and clarify what matters to them. ACT is useful for managing stress, chronic worry, and life transitions. Melissa combines that with client-centered work that prioritizes listening and tailoring support to each person's needs.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies to try first based on symptoms, goals, and what feels most helpful. That plan can shift over time as progress and preferences emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging are options for brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter touchpoints between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Virginia
- Languages
- English