Melissa Button, LMHC

Melissa Button is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and midlife transitions. She focuses on practical steps to ease overwhelming feelings and restore daily functioning. Melissa aims to build a straightforward connection so people can talk through what matters most to them and begin making changes.

She begins by getting to know each person and what they want to change. That early conversation helps shape simple goals and clear next steps. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, coping skills, and small habits that add up over time.

Melissa uses familiar, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practices. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical approaches to help people manage strong emotions and improve decision making. These methods are described and tried together so the person can see what helps.

With 15 years of professional experience, she has worked with people managing addiction, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, codependency, and workplace stress. Melissa helps clients address practical problems like money worries, communication struggles, and isolation while also working on self-esteem and self-love.

People who want a calm, collaborative therapist will find an approach that focuses on usable tools and steady progress. She encourages realistic steps and supports clients as they practice new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.

How Melissa’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s goals. The therapist reflects what matters most and helps the person set useful, realistic steps toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines learning emotion regulation skills with ways to tolerate distress and improve relationships.

Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Melissa will discuss which approaches fit a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative decision lets people try techniques and adjust based on what helps most in their daily life.

Confirm current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the profile. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They can also let people use mindfulness or skill practices in real-life settings between meetings, which helps turn ideas into habits.