About Melanie
Melanie Griggs helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. She is Melanie Griggs, LCMHC, and brings 35 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is approachable and steady, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
In sessions she focuses on what matters most to the individual. She listens for patterns that cause pain and helps people try practical skills to feel better day to day.
How Melanie works
She draws on therapies that teach new ways of thinking and responding to strong emotions. Her background includes long experience supporting recovery from trauma and abuse, and working with people facing addiction or mood challenges like bipolar disorder. She also attends to issues that touch life stages, such as caregiver stress, aging concerns, blended family dynamics, and midlife transitions.
People may bring concerns about sleep, anger, self-esteem, career strain, or family-of-origin wounds. Melanie combines client-centered conversations with techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and present-moment awareness. The aim is clearer choices and steadier functioning in daily life.
Sessions can address practical problems such as chronic pain or caregiving burden, as well as deeper themes like dissociation, guilt, or emptiness. Her approach is collaborative: she helps set goals, teaches coping strategies, and adjusts techniques to match each person’s needs and pace.
Melanie lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Melanie works with
The areas below are the ones Melanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what matters, and helps the person clarify goals and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will collaborate to identify which methods fit a person's problems, goals, and preferences. That may mean starting with friendly, client-centered conversations, then adding CBT skills or mindfulness exercises as needed.
Online sessions allow the same therapeutic work without travel. Video calls make it possible to have face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions offer a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity when life becomes unpredictable.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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