About Melissa
Melissa Upton is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship concerns, and ADHD. She works with adults on parenting, intimacy-related issues, career decisions, and life transitions. Her tone is respectful and straightforward, aimed at people who want practical help without jargon.
She draws on 14 years of counseling experience and many more years working in Mississippi schools. That background shaped her approach to common problems like coping skills, communication breakdowns, and family tensions.
Background and approach
She frames therapy as a place to talk honestly and practice new ways of handling difficult situations. In sessions she focuses on the person’s goals and strengths. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each individual.
She also incorporates solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable steps toward change. Mental health work with her may include talking through emotional reactions, building stress-management tools, and planning for career or academic decisions. She pays attention to patterns like control issues, guilt, shame, or trouble with forgiveness, and helps people find concrete ways forward.
People who choose her can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style. She encourages practical self-help habits alongside counseling. Her aim is to help clients leave sessions with something they can use that week.
How her approaches guide online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation follows the client's concerns. The therapist listens deeply and reflects what she hears, helping people feel understood and better able to name their priorities. This style is useful for stress, relationship worries, and self-esteem work.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, doable changes. Sessions identify what is already working and build simple steps to reach short-term goals. This approach works well for coping with life changes, anger management, and practical problems like career planning.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions match the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person meetings. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates or support between sessions and can make it easier to stay consistent with care. These formats aim to make it simpler to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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