Melissa Miller, LCSW

Melissa Miller is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of experience and holds a Virginia LCSW and a Florida LCSW. She works with adults on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship difficulties. Melissa also lists anger among her focus areas and helps people who want better ways to respond when frustration builds.

Her approach blends practical strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Sessions focus on clear skills you can use between meetings, like spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and learning new coping responses. Conversations are direct and goal-oriented, aimed at reducing reactivity and improving day-to-day functioning.

Melissa has supported people dealing with life transitions, grief, caregiving strain, and burnout-related compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns such as body image, eating issues, ADHD, panic attacks, and postpartum depression. Her background includes helping clients manage work stress, career questions, and isolation or loneliness.

In practice she emphasizes collaboration - setting goals together and checking progress as you go. She adapts the focus to fit each person's concerns, whether that means building emotion regulation skills or sharpening problem-solving for relationships. The tone is straightforward and practical, aimed at making change feel manageable.

If you want to address anger, Melissa can guide you through techniques for noticing triggers, slowing automatic responses, and choosing actions that match your long-term goals. To begin, follow the site's process to match and schedule an initial session.

How Melissa Uses CBT and DBT in Online Work