About Melissa
Melissa Pini is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career concerns, and coaching. She presents a down-to-earth style and aims to help people build usable skills. Her sessions are shorter than typical therapy appointments and are structured to move toward clear goals.
Melissa offers brief, skills-focused work that usually runs for several weeks. Sessions typically last 30 to 45 minutes and many people meet weekly for about 5 to 10 weeks.
How Melissa works
That format is meant to help people learn tools and put them into practice between meetings. She provides educational and career counseling for adults 18 and older. Melissa runs workshops that teach coping strategies and ways to identify purpose and direction.
Those workshops are built to give a toolbox of techniques for managing stress and making career decisions. Her practice also attends to chronic pain, illness, and disability concerns alongside communication problems and multicultural issues. She works with people who want to strengthen self-love and clarify life purpose as part of coaching and counseling.
Melissa has four years of clinical experience and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in her work. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Evidence-based techniques delivered online
Melissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on skill building and practical change. One common approach helps people learn stress and anxiety management tools such as breathing, grounding, and structured problem-solving to reduce daily overwhelm and improve coping. Another focuses on career and life-purpose coaching, helping people clarify goals, identify strengths, and build action steps for work and meaning. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences together and choose techniques that fit the person. That collaborative process helps tailor short-term plans and the length of work to what the client wants to accomplish. Online formats make this style of work flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow full conversations and visual cues when needed. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or stepping through a short exercise between sessions. These options let people continue steady work without major schedule disruptions, and they support weekly 30-45 minute sessions typical of this practice.Start online instead of waiting
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