Melissa Hummelt
Supportive therapist for everyday family concerns
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Melissa
Melissa Hummelt is a licensed therapist who focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges. She aims to build a trusting relationship so sessions feel safe and useful.
Melissa is identified by her credentials as LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor. She trained at Marquette University where she earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Background and approach
She has about 15 years of experience working in the mental health field and has provided online therapy for many years. Her background includes supporting people with grief, trauma, relationship strain, postpartum and pregnancy-related concerns, and career or self-esteem issues. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, to help clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She also draws on client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace, and she integrates mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the situation. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help with behavior change, such as substance use. Melissa describes her style as warm and non-judgmental.
She focuses on clear, doable strategies and open conversation. Her work emphasizes collaboration and practical steps that clients can try between sessions. Therapy with her is offered in English and delivered through text-based formats including live chat and asynchronous messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Melissa's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work means the therapist follows the client's lead and adapts to what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors that cause trouble and practicing concrete changes to feel and function better; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit change.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Melissa collaborates with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and what seems to help. That can mean starting with CBT exercises, weaving in mindfulness skills, or using motivational interviewing for behavior change, and then changing course as needed.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls and phone sessions allow face-to-face conversation when preferred, while live chat and text-based messaging let people check in from anywhere and continue work between meetings. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, and Melissa uses them to keep the work practical and accessible for each client.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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