About Melissa
Melissa Elliott is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 30 years of experience. She goes by Leesa and welcomes people who want more balance, peace, and happiness. She speaks plain, practical language and aims to help clients find usable tools they can use right away.
She believes the right counselor can shorten the path to personal goals. Sessions focus on building practical skills that clients can apply in daily life.
How Melissa works
Melissa encourages people to add techniques to their toolkit so they feel better equipped for future challenges. Melissa commonly addresses stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family strain, trauma and abuse, career concerns, and bipolar disorder.
Her practice includes attention to parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care matters, fertility and women’s health issues, and aging and geriatric concerns. She draws on life and work experience to bring practical perspective to those topics.
Her style is flexible and adapted to each person’s needs rather than a single fixed method. Clients can expect a counselor who listens and helps create straightforward strategies. Melissa works to tailor sessions to what actually helps each person move forward.
She looks forward to being part of a client’s journey toward greater balance and well-being.
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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Melissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building practical coping skills. One common approach looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches ways to shift patterns that cause distress. This can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress by giving concrete steps to test and change thoughts.She also emphasizes skill-building methods that teach breathing, relaxation, problem-solving, and behavioral strategies to manage strong emotions. These tools are useful for handling anger, grief, parenting stress, workplace strain, and day-to-day life changes. Melissa adapts what she uses to fit the person in front of her rather than using the same technique for everyone.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to identify techniques that feel realistic and sustainable for each person.
Online care is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when needed, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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