Melissa Evans Greene , LPC

Melissa Evans Greene is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona, bringing ten years of professional experience alongside more than two decades of work in community behavioral health. She has worked extensively with adults, children, and couples who have experienced traumatic events, and for eight years she focused particularly on supporting survivors of sexual trauma and their family members. Her clinical experience spans ages 5 to 17 for youth and 18 to 86 for adults, and includes work with individuals facing chemical dependency, mood dysregulation, disruptive behaviors, and relationship or family challenges.

Melissa frames counseling around building strong rapport and maintaining a nonjudgmental atmosphere while assisting clients in managing their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in relation to their bodies. She emphasizes teaching and practicing emotional regulation skills to help people reach their highest level of functioning. To ensure care is individualized, she attends to client identities and cultural experiences - including race, ethnicity, gender, and class - and works to empower clients to define and actively pursue meaningful goals. Her practice addresses stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes, with additional focus on attachment and commitment issues, communication problems, domestic violence, veteran and armed forces concerns, panic and post-traumatic symptoms, and somatization. Melissa holds Arizona licensure as LPC (AZ LPC LPC-17254).

Evidence-Based Strategies Delivered Remotely

Melissa uses trauma-focused interventions that prioritize processing and integrating difficult experiences in ways that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. These approaches are tailored to address symptoms related to trauma, abuse, and post-traumatic stress. She also emphasizes skills-based emotional regulation training, teaching practical techniques for recognizing emotions, reducing intense reactions, and improving coping during stressful moments - helpful for anxiety, mood dysregulation, and relationship strain.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Melissa collaborates with each person to identify which strategies fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods over time so care stays relevant and effective. That collaborative process helps clients feel involved and supported as they try different tools and approaches.

Online therapy with Melissa is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limitations, or geographic distance. These options make it easier to attend sessions consistently and to integrate therapeutic practice into everyday life while maintaining continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists trained to work with trauma, anxiety, relationships, and life change challenges.