About Melissa
Melissa Rohrbach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who guides people through recovery from substance use and mental health struggles. She focuses on helping clients move past feeling stuck and adapt to life transitions. Her approach is practical and people-centered, with attention to both personal growth and day-to-day functioning.
She uses individual, couples, and group formats to meet different needs. Sessions aim to help people recognize what is unique about them.
Background and approach
Then they work on clear steps to build strengths and skills. Melissa draws on several evidence-informed methods, including client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral strategies. She also incorporates mindfulness, EMDR, and motivational interviewing when appropriate.
These tools are used to address symptoms as well as underlying patterns that keep problems going. Areas she commonly supports include trauma and abuse, addiction and substance use concerns, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She also addresses parenting stress, caregiver strain, ADHD, eating and sleeping issues, and career-related concerns.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and recovery from domestic violence or infidelity. Sessions are offered from Missouri and are conducted in English. Melissa brings five years of clinical experience and uses a collaborative style.
She aims to create a space where people can try new ways of coping and rebuild a sense of agency.
Approaches for online healing and practical skills
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. The therapist follows the client's lead, validating feelings and helping people clarify what matters most in their lives. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured approach used to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories and help people feel less overwhelmed by past events.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will recommend methods to try and adjust the plan if something doesn’t fit. This keeps the process collaborative and goal oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use gestures and facial cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, reflections between sessions, or when writing things out helps. These options make it easier to get care from home or while traveling and to match a format to daily needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English