About Melissa
Melissa Button is a New York licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addictions, low self-esteem, depression, or compassion fatigue. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life more manageable. Her work is direct and respectful, aimed at helping people build coping skills and greater confidence.
She begins by getting to know each person and what matters most to them.
Background and approach
That rapport helps shape clear, realistic goals and the small actions that move things forward. Melissa uses approaches that emphasize the client’s own perspective and strengths rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions often include skill-building for managing intense emotions, identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, and strengthening motivation to change.
Melissa draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing to address problems like substance use, social anxiety, and mood concerns. She also helps people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, workplace strain, financial worries, and feelings of guilt or isolation. Conversations can cover practical strategies for daily routines, communication, and rebuilding self-trust.
Melissa aims for a collaborative process. She listens, offers feedback, and helps set small, measurable steps. The focus is on steady progress that fits each person’s life and values.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Melissa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. That approach breaks problems into smaller parts so clients can try specific skills for worry, low mood, or addictive urges. She also draws on motivational interviewing to build readiness for change and strengthen personal reasons for taking steps forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Melissa will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for longer therapy work and teaching skills, while phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, prompts, or extra support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English