Melissa Pickett, LPCC, LPC

Melissa Pickett is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and trauma. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices from Kentucky. Melissa focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.

Her approach is direct and person-focused. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques, and client-centered methods to shape sessions around each person's needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with skills people can apply between meetings.

Melissa works with a wide range of challenges, including depression, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress. She also addresses concerns such as attachment wounds, body image, dissociation, and postpartum depression. When needed, she incorporates tools that target compulsions and intense emotions.

In sessions she listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable steps. That may mean building new habits, practicing exposure strategies for compulsive behaviors, or learning emotion regulation skills drawn from DBT. Therapy typically mixes short-term skill work with deeper exploration when it helps.

People looking for flexible ways to meet can use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Melissa accepts international clients and works to match session methods to each person’s routine and goals.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life

Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, OCD, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing different responses.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can help with avoidance, low motivation, and distress that comes with life changes.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Melissa will talk with each person about goals and daily life, then tailor methods and pace to what fits best. Together they decide whether to focus on short-term skills, exposure work, or deeper emotional processing.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people practice skills with visual feedback, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, family routines, or travel.