About Melissa
Melissa Caparitia is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship struggles. She practices with a calm, accepting manner and focuses on listening first. Melissa emphasizes making small, realistic changes that fit each person’s life.
Melissa uses a client-centered approach that starts with building trust and understanding. She pairs that with practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and motivational interviewing to address thoughts, behaviors, and values.
Background and approach
Sessions move at the client's pace and focus on concrete steps toward goals. Her background includes a master’s degree in mental health counseling and three years of professional experience. She has worked with people facing trauma, family problems, postpartum challenges, self-harm concerns, and issues related to substance use.
Melissa often helps clients clarify life purpose, manage caregiver stress, and heal after abuse. In sessions she listens without judgment and helps people find tools that fit their situation. Expect straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and skill practice you can use between meetings.
She adapts the work when people are coping with big life changes or complex family dynamics. Melissa practices from Connecticut and speaks English. She supports people who identify as LGBT and helps those facing anger, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, and blended family issues.
If you want support working toward change, she offers an empowering, practical style.
How Melissa Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, values-guided steps even when difficult feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. This approach often includes concrete exercises and homework to practice skills between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative conversation guides whether ACT, CBT, a client-centered stance, or motivational interviewing will be emphasized over time.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm which options are offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow check-ins from different locations, or offer shorter phone or video meetings when time is limited. It also lets people practice skills in real-life settings and brings consistency when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can adjust pace and tools to match each person’s daily life and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English