Melissa Wood, LPC

Melissa Wood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of experience. She helps adults and adolescents manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers straightforward support for relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma, and problems with substance use. Her approach is practical and focused on real steps people can use between sessions.

Wood uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose different behaviors. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear goals and build small, useful strategies quickly. Sessions center on skills you can practice in daily life, such as coping tools, communication techniques, and ways to handle intense emotions.

In sessions she aims to be warm and approachable. She prioritizes simple language and concrete plans so progress feels doable. The work is collaborative - she and the client pick priorities and test what helps.

Based in South Carolina, she conducts therapy in English and offers several remote formats like video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Costs vary by location and are billed through a cancellable subscription.

To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a first appointment. That first visit is used to set goals and decide what approaches and session formats will fit best.

How Melissa uses CBT and solution-focused work online

Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people recognize unhelpful thought patterns and try different responses. CBT sessions typically focus on specific problems like anxiety, depression, or ADHD-related challenges and include practical exercises to use between meetings.

She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and build on small successes. This approach is useful when someone wants concrete changes fast, such as improving sleep, reducing panic, or changing communication habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress is made or challenges shift.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work for skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief updates, in-between support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.