About Melissa
Melissa Quigley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, stress, addictions, trauma, relationship and family concerns, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD and life transitions. Her style is warm, open and down-to-earth.
Sessions are collaborative and interactive. She aims to tailor each plan to a person's goals and day-to-day needs. Melissa has worked across clinical settings, including intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, and in community behavioral health leadership roles.
How Melissa works
That background gives her practical experience with crisis management, de-escalation, and working alongside agencies and schools. She uses several approaches to fit different problems. Those include client-centered methods that focus on the person, cognitive behavioral strategies to address thinking and behavior patterns, mindfulness practices to manage stress, motivational interviewing to build change, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns.
Therapy sessions typically focus on clear, achievable steps. Conversations cover coping tools, communication skills, problem solving, and managing strong emotions. Melissa aims to meet people where they are and help them build routines that support recovery and growth.
Melissa lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their priorities and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage strong emotions and improve sleep and focus.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a skill-focused CBT strategy for a few sessions, then shifting to mindfulness or exploring longer-standing patterns with psychodynamic ideas if that seems helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when in-person is not possible. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when movement is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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A practical next step
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