About Melissa
Melissa Rohrbach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate difficult life moments, including stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges linked to addiction and trauma. Melissa aims to create a steady, practical space where clients can talk through what feels overwhelming and find next steps that fit their life.
Melissa uses a range of straightforward methods to help people make change.
How Melissa works
She works from a client-centered stance that starts with the person's goals and experiences. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and adjust behaviors. For trauma-related concerns she includes approaches designed to reduce distress and build safer ways of coping.
Her practice also addresses relationship and family concerns from the perspective of the individual. She helps people manage grief, intimacy-related issues, and the strain of caregiving. Parenting stress, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care topics, and communication problems are in her scope of focus.
Melissa supports people facing mood and attention differences such as bipolar disorder and ADHD, as well as eating and sleeping struggles. She also works with people dealing with codependency, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and recovery from domestic violence or substance use issues. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on real-life outcomes.
Therapy is available in English and is offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session according to therapist availability.
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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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and perspective. The therapist listens carefully and helps the client set priorities and make choices that feel right for them. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, collaborative relationship and clear direction in sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions often include simple exercises to test beliefs and try new actions between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
EMDR is an approach used with trauma-related distress to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and improve coping. It is paired with skills for grounding and managing emotions so clients have tools for difficult moments.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, listen to the client's needs and preferences, and try methods that match the client's goals. This collaborative process can adapt over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling-like exchanges, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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