About Melissa
Melissa DiSilvestro is a licensed social worker in South Carolina with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or struggling with life changes. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, parenting pressures, workplace strain, and compassion fatigue.
She takes a collaborative approach. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple steps you can try between meetings. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths.
How Melissa works
That makes the work practical and focused on real change. Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She combines that with coaching-style problem solving to address everyday challenges.
The work often involves trying new habits, tracking progress, and adjusting plans as needed. Her background includes work in hospitals, schools, and outpatient primary care settings. That range of experience shaped a flexible style that fits busy lives.
She aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful from the first visit. People can expect a caring professional who listens and helps set achievable steps. Melissa will partner with you to break bigger problems into manageable tasks.
The tone is direct, respectful, and focused on finding what works for you.
Melissa lists one way of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How CBT and online sessions can help with everyday problems
Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing strong emotions by teaching concrete skills to try between sessions.She also brings a coaching-minded approach that focuses on setting goals and breaking them into small steps. That style is practical for people juggling busy schedules or coping with life transitions. Together the client and therapist decide which tools to try and adapt them over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. If something does not feel helpful, adjustments are made so the plan stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for a fuller face-to-face experience, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving schedule, or other busy routines.
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