Melissa Dawicki, LPC

Melissa Dawicki is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She draws on 17 years of behavioral health experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles. Melissa offers straightforward support and practical strategies, and she encourages small, steady steps toward feeling better.

Her work emphasizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside acceptance-based and client-centered approaches. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, experiment with new behaviors, and practice mindfulness skills. She also uses emotion-focused ideas when relationship issues or strong feelings are central to the problem.

Melissa has worked in community mental health, emergency room settings, private practice, and telehealth. That range means she is familiar with both short-term problem solving and longer-term therapy. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, grief after loss, and the strain of major life changes.

Sessions usually involve talking through recent challenges, identifying patterns that keep problems going, and trying practical tools between meetings. She welcomes feedback during treatment and adjusts plans when something isn’t helping. Melissa asks clients to be patient with change, since many concerns are rooted in long-standing habits and take time to shift.

Her practice uses an ongoing subscription model for sessions, which can be canceled at any time. Melissa works with people in English and does not accept international clients.

How Melissa Blends Talk Therapy and Practical Tools Online

Melissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce stress and mood symptoms. ACT helps people clarify values and take meaningful action even when difficult feelings are present.

She also draws on client-centered ideas, which means sessions are based on what the person brings and what feels most useful to them. Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist works with each person to set goals and decide whether CBT tasks, acceptance exercises, or more empathetic listening will be most helpful for their situation.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without traveling. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick reflections, or writing out thoughts when a longer session isn’t possible. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy lives.