Melissa Moore

Melissa Moore is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 10 years of experience in the mental health field. She enjoys learning about other cultures, spending time outdoors, and caring for animals. She brings a practical, person-centered approach to sessions and aims to help people manage stressors and move toward goals.

Melissa has worked in a range of settings including home-based care, mental health agencies, hospitals, and schools. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Anna Maria College and a Master of Science with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts Boston. That varied background informs how she supports people with mood differences, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Her work often addresses stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strains, workplace issues, and career-related questions. She also helps with trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Melissa pays attention to cultural and immigration-related stress where it affects someone’s day-to-day life.

Melissa draws on practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and psychodynamic ideas. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and reframe difficult experiences into clearer next steps.

She focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space where people can examine values and strengths. The goal is to use current challenges as a way to set realistic goals and try new strategies for change.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Melissa commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce distress, which can help with anxiety, depression, and workplace stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotional regulation.

She also draws on motivational interviewing when people face ambivalence about change; that approach helps clarify goals and build motivation in a collaborative way. Narrative work is used to examine the stories people tell about themselves and to find new, more useful perspectives on difficult experiences.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Melissa will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The process is collaborative and paced to the individual.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and make it possible to continue care during relocations or schedule changes. Licensed professionals can tailor tasks and between-session work to what fits into everyday routines.