Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Melissa works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Melissa
Melissa Hummelt is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage anger, stress, anxiety, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her approach aims to make conversations feel calm and useful from the first session.
Melissa holds a Master of Arts and uses fifteen years of experience in the mental health field to guide her work. She draws on practical skills that people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and steps to reduce intense emotions and improve daily functioning. Her main framework is cognitive behavioral therapy, which means she and the client look at the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that keep problems going.
She commonly mixes in mindfulness practices to help people notice their reactions and psychodynamic ideas to explore themes that repeat over time. Motivational interviewing is also part of her toolbox when someone needs help making a change. Melissa has worked with people facing grief, relationship struggles, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, addictions, career questions, and issues around self-esteem.
She aims to tailor each plan to the person's needs rather than following one fixed method. She provides services from California and conducts sessions in English. Her goal is to build a respectful, steady working relationship that helps people take concrete steps toward feeling better.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic 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 sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs, helping people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete exercises to change patterns that cause distress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and help with anger, anxiety, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they can try a method, adjust it, or combine techniques so the work fits the person's life and needs.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for longer, interactive sessions and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, get prompt coaching, or keep progress going between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum toward change.
Questions people ask about Melissa
What concerns does Melissa commonly address?
She works with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and parenting concerns, self-esteem, and related issues.
What kind of therapy style does she use?
Her work is practical and collaborative, using cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, client-centered methods, and motivational interviewing as needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has fifteen years of experience in the mental health field and has been providing online services for many years.
Which credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds MA LMHC and Wisconsin LPC credentials and practices from California.
Are sessions available in other languages or abroad?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Melissa provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.