Melissa Carriveau , LICSW

Melissa Carriveau is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She focuses on grief and loss, boosting self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Melissa emphasizes each person's strengths and choices as the basis for change.

She approaches therapy as a practical, collaborative process. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. Melissa listens to what matters most and helps people set steps they can actually use between meetings.

People often come for help with motivation, confidence, or burnout from caregiving and work. Melissa also supports those exploring life purpose, midlife transitions, and self-love. She brings two decades of clinical experience to those concerns without promising a fixed outcome.

Her work with women’s issues looks at the unique pressures many women face and the strategies that build resilience. She helps people untangle competing demands and reconnect with values that matter to them.

Melissa offers therapy to clients in Massachusetts and accepts international clients in English. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect people to her practice.

Evidence-based methods and flexible online care

Melissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress by identifying unhelpful patterns and practicing new ways of responding. Another approach centers on grief and life transitions by helping people make meaning of losses and find forward steps that fit their values.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to figure out which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can change over time as progress is made and new concerns arise.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, chat sessions let people check in quickly, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life transitions.