Melissa Hummelt , LMHC, LPC

Melissa Hummelt is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier and supports women navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum concerns, and intimacy issues. Melissa brings a calm, direct presence to sessions and centers the relationship as the starting point for change.

She holds a Master of Arts and has 15 years of experience in the mental health field. Over that time she has worked with people facing trauma, addiction, grief, career shifts, and parenting strain. Her background includes long experience delivering therapy online, which she uses to reach people who need flexibility.

Melissa commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients spot unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to slow things down, increase self-compassion, and strengthen coping skills. When useful, psychodynamic ideas are woven in to understand repeating patterns in relationships and emotion.

Sessions are aimed at clear, achievable goals. Melissa encourages small experiments between meetings and practical tools clients can use right away. She helps with work-related stress, substance concerns, eating and food-related issues, and the complicated emotions that come with grief and loss.

Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, with a focus on collaboration. People who want straightforward guidance and skills-based work alongside deeper reflection often find her approach helpful.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Melissa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. CBT is practical and well suited to online sessions because it uses clear steps and homework that can be tracked between meetings.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a warm, accepting space where clients lead the topics and feel heard. This approach helps people build trust and explore difficult feelings at their own pace during video, phone, chat, or messaging work.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose techniques that match a client's goals, needs, and preferences. If an approach needs adjustment, sessions are adapted so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit more easily into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care around life demands.