Melissa Hunt, LMSW

Melissa Hunt is a licensed social worker with 18 years of clinical experience based in Michigan. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, parenting pressures, and career questions using straightforward strategies. Her style is empathetic and down-to-earth, focused on practical steps that fit daily life. Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals and values. When needed, she adds techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR to address strong emotions and traumatic memories. In sessions she works on skills such as clearer communication, better impulse control, and managing caregiver strain. She supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family adjustments, divorce and separation, and problems tied to substance use. She also helps with family of origin issues, jealousy and infidelity, and finding life purpose. Her way of working aims to build small, doable habits that reduce overwhelm. She helps clients set concrete goals and practices to try between sessions. Meetings are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level. Melissa offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet. Sessions are arranged around each person’s schedule and needs. People who want to begin complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.

How Melissa uses talk therapy tools online

Melissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that fuel worry and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical changes to daily routines. She also works in a client-centered way that emphasizes listening and shaping sessions around each person's goals. That style helps people feel heard and keeps the work relevant to what matters now. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be introduced for strong emotions and relationship challenges. DBT skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication in everyday moments. Choosing the right approach is a team process. Melissa will talk through options, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what the person finds most helpful and manageable. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.