Melissa Wood , LPC

Melissa Wood is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides mental health services for adults and adolescents. She recognizes the everyday challenges that individuals, couples, and families face and uses an integrative approach tailored to each person’s circumstances. Her work focuses on anxiety, marriage and relationship concerns, posttraumatic stress, family dynamic issues, life transitions, and depression, with an emphasis on practical strategies that support recovery and resilience.

Melissa aims to create a warm, friendly space that helps people move toward healthier patterns and stronger relationships. As an LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor credential that reflects professional training and state licensure to provide counseling services - she blends evidence-informed techniques to match individual goals. Throughout the process she emphasizes collaboration, meeting clients where they are and adapting methods to best suit each person’s needs and preferences.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Melissa Wood uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to guide her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and reframe unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and stressful reactions. It focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to build coping strategies that can be practiced between sessions. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes clear, achievable goals and highlights existing strengths and resources; it is especially useful when clients want to make concrete changes and see measurable progress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Melissa works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so therapy remains focused and relevant.

Online therapy with Melissa is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into daily life and to maintain momentum between appointments while working with licensed professionals and therapists in a convenient format.