About Melissa
Melissa Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 17 years of experience. She began her career as a school counselor working with middle and high school students and their parents, and later shifted into broader mental health practice. She focuses on straightforward, respectful care and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people seeking help.
Her work centers on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
How Melissa works
She also helps with parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, relationship and family issues, grief, and trauma and abuse. Melissa offers support for body image, eating concerns, anger, coping with life changes, and coaching for motivation and confidence. Melissa uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and shape sessions around each person’s goals.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice patterns in thoughts and behavior and try practical changes. Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, usable steps rather than medical jargon.
She brings additional attention to aging and geriatric issues, cancer and caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and family-of-origin concerns. Melissa is mindful of gender dysphoria, LGBT issues, codependency, guilt, shame, and forgiveness work. People meet with her by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works in English and practices under her Florida LMHC credential.
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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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, follows your lead, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance, emotional support, and space to find their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, low mood, or anger. CBT is practical and goal-oriented and often includes homework between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That conversation is ongoing and may blend elements from both Client-Centered and CBT approaches.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging can work well for brief updates or ongoing support. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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