About Melissa
Melissa Harris is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with eight years of clinical practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, ADHD, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Melissa uses straightforward, practical guidance and a calm presence to help people find clearer paths forward.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens to what matters most and helps people set small, doable steps toward change. Sessions often center on improving communication, building self-esteem, and managing intense emotions in everyday situations.
How Melissa works
Melissa draws on several evidence-based approaches to match the work to each person's goals. She blends techniques that help with thoughts and behaviors, strengthen emotional bonds, and build present-moment coping. That mix supports people facing life transitions, workplace stress, caregiver strain, or issues tied to identity and intimacy.
She also pays attention to more specific concerns such as adoption and foster care challenges, attachment issues, chronic illness and pain, and codependency. Melissa supports people coping with bipolar disorder, depression, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue with practical skills and paced planning. In sessions clients can expect a focus on real-world tools, problem solving, and emotional processing.
Melissa helps people set goals, try out new ways of relating, and track progress over time. The aim is steady, manageable change that fits each person's life.
Melissa lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a more meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect one another and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns; CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, and coping with daily challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relationship patterns and how early connections shape current ways of relating, which can help with intimacy, communication, and attachment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the fit stays collaborative and responsive.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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