About Melissa
Melissa Geraci is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. She offers steady, practical support and clear steps when emotions feel overwhelming. Her voice is calm and direct, focused on helping people find workable ways forward.
She uses straightforward methods that fit each person’s needs. Sessions include talking through recent struggles, learning specific skills to manage intense feelings, and planning small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Melissa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Jungian ideas, and trauma-focused work to shape this practical toolbox. Melissa takes a collaborative stance. She asks questions, listens for what matters most, and co-creates goals with the person in front of her.
That means setting short-term aims, practicing new responses between sessions, and checking what helps. Her background includes eight years of clinical experience working with people who deal with mood disorders, substance use, communication problems, isolation, and survivors of sexual assault and abuse. She holds an LCSW, which is a licensed clinical social worker credential in Arizona.
Sessions are adaptable to the client’s life and needs. Melissa focuses on real-world skills and recovery from painful events while helping people rebuild routines, manage emotions, and strengthen relationships at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Melissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and routines that worsen mood and anxiety. CBT often focuses on practical steps and homework to reduce symptoms and build new habits.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotional reactions feel overwhelming. DBT offers clear tools for managing strong feelings, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adapt methods over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to shift direction.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit sessions into life. Video calls let people meet face to face when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or other responsibilities while trying different therapeutic tools that match each person’s needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English