Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- ADHD
How Melissa works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Melissa
Melissa Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of experience based in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people work through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, ADHD, and anger. Melissa takes a calm, practical approach and meets clients where they are.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for everyday life. Her work often centers on communication problems, relationship and intimacy concerns, and parenting strains. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and complex grief.
Background and approach
Melissa helps clients untangle patterns like codependency, avoidance, and commitment worries. She uses a mix of tools drawn from evidence-based approaches. Those include cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking, skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation, and attachment-focused ideas to repair connection.
The therapy room is a place to practice new ways of responding to old triggers. Sessions balance practical skills and personal exploration. Melissa helps clients set small, doable goals and track progress over time.
She also works on improving communication and building healthier routines that fit each person's life. Melissa offers services to people facing life transitions, addiction concerns, eating and body image struggles, bipolar and depression management, and compassion fatigue. Her goal is steady, realistic change rather than quick fixes.
She collaborates with each person to find strategies that fit their values and daily demands.
What Melissa works with
Everything Melissa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Melissa's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches specific skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and anger when people want clear steps to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without reactive behavior.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make it easier to get support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, do shorter updates, or get support when a quick strategy is needed. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Melissa
What concerns does Melissa commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating struggles, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Melissa blends practical skills and personal reflection. Sessions focus on clear goals, emotion regulation, better communication, and habits that can be used between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience as a mental health professional working with a wide range of concerns and life transitions.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
Melissa is a Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing from Tennessee.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.