About Melissa
Melissa Pitts Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience in Oklahoma. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or dealing with addiction. She also supports those facing relationship strain, career crossroads, sleep problems, and questions about identity and life purpose.
She aims to make therapy feel calm and straightforward. Sessions focus on clear steps and real skills. Clients find practical ways to cope with panic, depression, trauma, and burnout rather than abstract talk.
Background and approach
Melissa draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, achievable goals and track progress.
Her background includes work in community mental health, tribal behavioral health, and independent practice. That variety gave her experience with many different life situations and stressors. She brings that experience into short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on what a person needs.
Sessions often include mindfulness practices and, when helpful, movement-based ideas from yoga. The focus is on what will make life easier day to day, such as managing panic attacks, improving sleep, or reducing substance use. Melissa aims to support and empower people as they take steps toward change.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to a person. It helps people feel heard and decide what to work on next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. It teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change habits.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Melissa uses what fits best for the person - sometimes a mix of listening, skill practice, and short goal-setting sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or continuing progress between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English