About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Oleshansky is a Michigan psychologist with 25 years of clinical experience. She uses a direct and compassionate style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
People often meet her when they want practical tools and steady guidance during difficult transitions. She combines evidence-informed techniques with a coaching mindset. Sessions focus on skill-building for stress responses, improving sleep and eating habits, and managing addictive patterns.
How Melissa works
She also helps people work through relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, and career decisions. Dr. Oleshansky draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based work to help clients notice thoughts and choose meaningful actions.
Attachment-informed ideas guide understanding of close relationships and recurring patterns. Her client-centered stance keeps the person’s goals at the center of each session. Practical skills are a big part of sessions.
That can mean short in-the-moment strategies, longer behavior changes, or coaching-style goal setting to boost confidence. She pays attention to co-occurring issues such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress when they affect daily functioning. Work with her is straightforward and nonjudgmental.
The emphasis is on clear steps, steady progress, and building resilience so people can move forward from crisis or chronic stress.
Melissa lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | MI Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that reflect their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how past and current relationship patterns shape emotions and reactions, helping people shift patterns that undermine intimacy or trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That means trying specific techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone work can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching prompts, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping treatment focused on real-world change.
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