Melissa Hurt, LICSW
Minnesota · 3 years in practice
Melissa Hurt is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota.
License and registration
- LICSW, Minnesota
- 26480 · expires December 2027
- NPI
- 1588320378 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Melissa
Melissa Hurt is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota. She draws on a social work background and clinical practice to help people find more stability, calm, and meaning in day-to-day life. Melissa presents herself as a compassionate, straightforward therapist who listens and offers practical next steps.
She trained in social work with a focus on larger systems and how they shape individual lives. That perspective informs her sessions, so conversations often include how culture, family history, and life circumstances affect choices and feelings.
Background and approach
Melissa pays attention to those details because they shape healing. Her recent career includes several years in disability services supporting teams of social workers. That experience shaped a strengths-focused, creative approach to problem solving and support.
She emphasizes compassion, practical tools, and small changes that add up over time. Melissa has experience with young college professionals and connections to the veteran community through family life. She draws from long-term relationship experience and parenting to talk about partnership and raising children in real terms, not theory.
Her therapeutic toolbox includes Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to mix reflection with straightforward exercises and skill practice to help people move forward. Melissa aims to be honest, encouraging, and supportive while helping clients figure out what works for them.
She invites people to consider therapy as a collaborative process toward clearer goals and usable strategies.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melissa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative 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 Melissa blends emotional work and practical tools online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and make sense of strong emotions and the patterns they create in relationships. It can be useful for addressing attachment concerns, intimacy-related issues, and painful relationship cycles by focusing on feelings and connection.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by encouraging committed actions toward meaningful goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers straightforward techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and developing practical coping skills.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try exercises and tweak strategies based on what feels most useful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities and to keep continuity during life transitions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Melissa support?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and addictions, plus relationship and intimacy-related issues and parenting challenges.
What is her general therapy style like?
Sessions mix listening, emotional exploration, and hands-on strategies. Expect a compassionate, strengths-oriented approach with practical exercises.
What is her clinical background?
Melissa holds a LICSW and has about three years of clinical experience, along with earlier work supporting social work teams in disability services.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is licensed in Minnesota as an LICSW and provides services connected to that location.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
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?
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