Melissa Timlin, LPC

Melissa Timlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Melissa draws on practical skills and down-to-earth conversation to help people take the next step toward change.

She brings experience from both clinical counseling and a decade of active-duty service in the U.S. Navy. That background informs how she thinks about structure, accountability, and resilience. Melissa emphasizes collaboration and treats each person as the expert on their own life.

Her work blends evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with approaches that attend to body and breath. She uses restorative yoga elements, body-scan meditation, and breathing practices alongside talk-based strategies to address old patterns. This mix aims to provide practical tools for coping and emotional regulation.

Melissa also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based approaches to help people notice what matters and reshape difficult relationship patterns. She has particular experience with addictions, including substance concerns and problematic sexual behaviors, and with challenges that arise around aging and geriatric issues.

Sessions focus on clear goals, manageable skills, and steady progress. Melissa supports people as they build routines and strategies that fit daily life. The emphasis is on useful, repeatable practices rather than abstract theory.

How Melissa’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small steps toward them. It uses mindfulness and action planning to reduce avoidance and build a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and feelings to find patterns that maintain distress and then teaches practical skills to shift those patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful for intense mood swings or high stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Melissa works with each person to decide which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to a single method up front.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the exact session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day, practice breathing or body-scan exercises in real time, or use worksheets and structured exercises between meetings. It can also allow sessions to happen from different locations when schedules require flexibility. Ask about how specific tools and exercises will be used so sessions match your routine and goals.