About Melissa
Melissa Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with eight years of experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, ADHD, and other life challenges. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She aims to make sessions focused and understandable. Melissa helps clients name problems, try new ways of coping, and build small routines that make a difference.
Background and approach
Conversations are calm and goal-oriented so progress feels steady rather than overwhelming. Her work blends a few therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She uses strategies that help with negative thoughts, emotional regulation, and clearer relationships.
That mix is useful for mood concerns, addiction recovery, and coping with big life changes. Melissa pays attention to history and attachment patterns when they matter. This helps when past relationships affect present behavior or when trust and connection need rebuilding.
She also offers coaching-style support for people who want concrete plans and follow-through. Sessions move at a practical pace and focus on skills people can use the same week. Melissa explains options, checks what feels helpful, and adapts as progress unfolds.
The aim is steady, lived change rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches that work online and in life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clear about values and take small actions that matter, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on practical steps tied to what you care about. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers tools to notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It helps with anxiety, low mood, ADHD-related routines, and building new habits through short experiments and skill practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and responses. It can be helpful when trust, connection, or repeated relationship problems affect daily life.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Melissa works with clients to try methods, see what fits, and adjust based on goals and preferences. That collaborative tone helps tailor sessions so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share quick updates, ask questions between meetings, or use shorter touchpoints during a busy week. These options make regular progress easier to schedule and maintain while fitting therapy into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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