Melissa Harris, LPC
Tennessee · 8 years in practice
Melissa Harris is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with eight years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Tennessee
- 6019 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1205456134 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
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About Melissa
Melissa Harris is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and ADHD. Melissa aims to create a calm, patient space where clients can talk about what matters most to them and find clearer footing during hard times.
Her work emphasizes emotional connection and practical steps. Melissa uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based models.
Background and approach
Sessions often include exploring feelings, learning new ways to respond, and trying small, doable changes between meetings. She supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy questions, communication problems, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and career or life transitions. Melissa also works with clients facing complex medical, caregiving, or identity-related challenges, including LGBT issues and adoption or foster care histories.
Melissa describes her style as compassionate and collaborative. She listens first, then helps set short-term goals and builds strategies that fit each person’s daily life. Her background balances practical tools with attention to emotional patterns.
Therapy can include talk work, behavioral experiments, and skills practice tailored to the client’s priorities. Melissa helps people spot unhelpful patterns and try new responses, aiming for steady, realistic progress over time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melissa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional patterns that keep people stuck. It helps when relationship hurts, attachment wounds, or intense feelings get in the way of closeness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical ways to accept difficult thoughts while committing to actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing an approach is a joint process. Melissa will discuss options, listen to your goals, and suggest strategies that fit how you prefer to work. That conversation may draw from EFT, ACT, or other client-centered and cognitive techniques so the plan reflects your needs rather than a single method.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect beyond in-person meetings. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using the same therapeutic tools.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Melissa help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, ADHD, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns, plus many related issues such as parenting strain and communication problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is compassionate and collaborative, combining emotional work with practical skills so clients leave sessions with clear options to try between meetings.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Melissa has eight years of experience providing counseling in Tennessee and has worked across a wide range of emotional, relational, and life-change concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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