About Melissa
Melissa Campos offers warm, straightforward counseling for people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or exhausted. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps so clients can see change in day-to-day life. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor she brings 16 years of clinical experience to each session.
Melissa creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most. She listens closely to what each person wants and works with them to build tools that fit their life.
How Melissa works
Sessions are collaborative and focused on real problems and real solutions. Her background combines several evidence-based approaches. Melissa uses cognitive behavioral ideas to break unhelpful thinking patterns and acceptance-based techniques to help people live in line with their values.
She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior therapy and client-centered methods when helpful. Melissa has worked with concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, grief, trauma and relationship struggles. She also supports people coping with life transitions, caregiver stress, parenting challenges, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are provided to people located in Florida. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy button.
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What Melissa works with
The areas below are the ones Melissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Melissa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take committed actions that matter. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT provides concrete strategies for changing unhelpful thinking and for building new habits, which is useful for stress, mood concerns, and addictive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Melissa will discuss options and work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative decision and may shift over time as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently.
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A practical next step
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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