Melissa Dobson is a licensed mental health counselor holding LMHC and LPCC credentials.
01About Melissa
Melissa Dobson is a licensed mental health counselor holding LMHC and LPCC credentials. She brings 15 years of experience helping people face common struggles like stress, anxiety, low mood, and doubts about self-worth. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her approach is respectful and patient, aimed at making conversation feel easier to start. Melissa works with concerns that often show up in daily life. She helps people manage depression, mood disorders, social anxiety and phobia, and feelings of isolation or loneliness.
Background and approach
Relationship and family concerns are also areas she addresses, along with communication problems and building self-love. In sessions she uses short-term, goal-focused methods that fit a person’s situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change them with small experiments.
Solution-Focused Therapy keeps work centered on realistic, reachable steps. Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to find internal reasons to change. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
Melissa tailors conversation and plans to each person’s needs and pace. She aims to make each session feel useful, with choices about what to try next. Melissa practices from Florida and conducts sessions in English.
She offers a range of online formats so people can pick what works best for their schedule and comfort. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps pair people to the right session schedule.
02Credentials
- LMHC (Florida)
- License MH10744 · expires March 2027
- LPCC (California)
- License 16488 · expires May 2026
- NPI
- 1659434553 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melissa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Communication problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Methods Melissa names
These are the methods Melissa names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How Melissa’s approaches work online
Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. CBT is practical and often focuses on exercises between sessions to build new habits.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy, which narrows in on small, realistic steps toward what a person wants to change. This approach is useful for people who prefer short-term, goal-oriented work that measures progress clearly.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Melissa discusses goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints with each person and adapts methods as work progresses. The plan can shift over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing prompts between meetings. These formats allow flexibility for scheduling and let people pick the mode that best matches their routine and comfort.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Melissa address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, and related issues like mood disorders and social anxiety.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, focusing on short-term steps and clear goals that fit each person’s needs.
What is her professional background?
Melissa has 15 years of experience working in mental health and uses approaches that emphasize workable change.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She holds FL LMHC and CA LPCC credentials and practices from Florida.
Can I see a therapist in a language other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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