About Melissa
Melissa Hummelt is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to build an open, trusting relationship with each person she sees. She emphasizes collaboration and clear communication so clients feel heard and understood from the start. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and brings 15 years of experience in the mental health field.
Over that time she has worked with many life challenges, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and substance concerns.
Background and approach
Her practice often uses a cognitive behavioral therapy framework. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes to daily routines and reactions. She also draws on client-centered, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas when those approaches better fit a person’s needs.
Melissa has provided online care for many years and lists California as her location. She works with issues such as relationship difficulties, grief, parenting strain, career stress, intimacy-related concerns, fertility and postpartum matters, eating and substance-related problems, and compassion fatigue. Her manner is described as warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on helping people develop useful skills and insight.
Therapy sessions are offered through several online formats to match different schedules and preferences.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the relationship and on listening closely to what matters to you. The therapist follows your lead, reflects your concerns, and helps you name goals that feel relevant to your life.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress-related issues.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can be useful for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day concentration.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with you to choose or combine methods that fit your needs, goals, and preferences rather than sticking to a single technique.
Online sessions offer flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat for short real-time check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules and to pick the format that feels most comfortable for each step of therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington
- Languages
- English