Melanie Griggs

Melanie Griggs is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 35 years of experience helping people navigate career shifts, stress, and major life changes. She works with adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Her style is calm and direct, focused on practical steps and steady support.

In sessions she listens first to understand what matters most to each person. She helps clients name patterns that get in the way and tries out concrete tools to change them. That often means short experiments between meetings, new ways to handle work pressure, or steps to rebuild sleep and routine.

Her background covers mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms, anxiety and panic, trauma and abuse recovery, and addiction-related struggles. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, caregiver fatigue, and the demands of aging or chronic illness.

Melanie uses an array of approaches to match each person's needs, including client-centered work that follows the person’s lead, cognitive behavioral tools to shift thinking and behavior, mindfulness practices to steady attention, and trauma-focused methods when past events need careful processing.

She aims to help people grow clearer goals and practical coping skills. Sessions focus on small changes that add up over time. The result is better day-to-day functioning and more confidence managing life's ups and downs.

How Melanie’s approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s lead. The therapist listens deeply and helps clients find their own solutions, which works well for exploring career decisions, relationship strain, or identity concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and routines, useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and work-related stress. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity and steady mood swings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie aims to figure out which method or mix will help most based on each person’s goals and preferences. She treats collaboration as central, checking in about what helps and adjusting tools as therapy progresses.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online sessions can still make therapy easier to fit into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use a break at work or during a commute day. Many people appreciate being able to continue steady care while juggling work, family, and health demands.