About Melissa
Melissa Foster helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or unsure about relationships. She supports those coping with life changes, grief, parenting strains, career worries and low self-esteem. Melissa is a BACP member and has five years of practice experience.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her. She listens, reflects, and works with each person to set small, practical goals.
How Melissa works
Melissa uses a mix of approaches to match individual needs. Cognitive behavioural techniques may be used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Psychodynamic ideas help people notice repeated patterns from earlier relationships that affect current choices.
She also draws on client-centred principles, which means the person’s pace and priorities shape the work. Solution-focused tools are used to spot strengths and build steps forward when quick practical change is needed. Her training includes Level 5 psychotherapeutic counselling and ongoing professional development within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
That background supports deeper talking work as well as focused skills for managing anxiety, family tensions, abandonment worries, attachment concerns, fertility and fatherhood issues, and more. People meet Melissa for a mix of short-term focused work or longer conversations about life patterns. She aims to make therapy approachable and useful, helping people gain clarity, stronger coping skills and a clearer way ahead.
Melissa lists 4 ways 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Melissa’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience in the moment. The therapist listens closely, reflects feelings and helps the person lead the pace of work. This approach suits anyone who needs a supportive space to understand their thoughts and feelings.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Online sessions can use practical exercises and short tasks to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying a CBT technique one week and a more reflective conversation the next, adjusting as progress emerges.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief problem-solving or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting or health commitments and let registered or accredited professionals provide consistent support without travel.
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