About Melissa
Melissa Groh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in North Carolina. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting strains. Her manner is warm and encouraging while staying focused on practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Melissa holds a Bachelor of Psychology from Truman State University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She has 11 years of experience in mental health, and that background includes work with grief and loss in hospice settings, substance use concerns, and homelessness-related stress.
Background and approach
In sessions she leans on talk therapy and mixes techniques to fit each person. She uses solution-focused tasks, mindfulness practices, strengths-based work, and task-centered strategies to help people set small goals and build toward them. The emphasis is on simple, doable changes rather than on long lists of abstract ideas.
Clients can expect a collaborative style that names what’s getting in the way and then tests practical steps to move forward. Melissa adapts her style to match individual needs, giving support while encouraging new skills for coping and emotional regulation.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, career stress, ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and LGBTQ-related stress. Melissa aims to help people find clearer direction and more steady routines amid life’s changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Melissa offers approachable, evidence-based techniques in online sessions. Solution-focused work narrows attention to the next small steps that can produce change, which is useful for stress, anxiety, or coping with life transitions. Mindfulness practices teach simple exercises to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotional regulation, helpful for people feeling overwhelmed.She also uses task-centered and strengths-based methods that turn goals into concrete actions. These approaches break bigger problems into manageable tasks and build on what already works for you. Choosing the right mix of methods is a team effort - she will discuss options and adjust the plan according to your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or when scheduling needs more flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English