About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Rosson greets people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers direct, practical support for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes.
Her tone is respectful and compassionate, and she adapts sessions to each person's needs. With 14 years of experience, Melissa draws on a mix of talk-based methods to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and make choices that match their values.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to manage strong emotions, improve communication, and rebuild confidence. Sessions focus on small steps that add up to real change. Melissa holds a Master of Education in Counseling and Personnel Services and a PhD in General Psychology.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Texas. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, parenting stress, relationship wounds, career shifts, and burnout-related compassion fatigue. Her approach combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive techniques and client-centered listening.
She also uses elements from dialectical behavior work and the Gottman method where that fits the client's goals. Therapy is collaborative, with the person deciding what feels most useful. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are structured to fit busy lives.
Melissa helps people set clear, manageable goals and practices between sessions to build new habits. She aims to make therapy practical, hopeful, and tailored to each person's situation.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. The Gottman Method offers practical communication and relationship strategies to improve connection and resolve recurring conflicts.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session focus, homework tasks, and pacing so therapy feels relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for longer conversations and exercises, phone calls can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that aim to build skills and coping over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish