Melissa Evans Greene, LPC

Melissa Evans Greene is an Arizona-licensed LPC with 10 years of professional counseling experience and more than 20 years working in the community behavioral health field. As an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - she brings deep experience supporting people across the lifespan, including children, adolescents, adults and couples. Her practice includes focused work with survivors of sexual trauma - including eight years of dedicated support for survivors and their loved ones - as well as people affected by mood dysregulation, chemical dependency, and disruptive behavioral challenges in youth.

She has worked with clients ranging in age from 5 to 86 and offers therapy for couples as well. Her specialties cover stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes, with additional attention to attachment and commitment issues, communication problems, family conflict, domestic violence, isolation and loneliness, men's issues, midlife transitions, veteran and armed forces concerns, multicultural matters, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress, prejudice and discrimination, somatization, and sexual assault and abuse.

Melissa emphasizes building strong rapport and a nonjudgmental therapeutic environment while helping clients manage thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and their relationship to their body. She teaches practical emotional regulation skills to improve functioning and creates individualized care that honors each person’s identities and cultural experiences - such as race, ethnicity, gender, and class - to empower clients in pursuing meaningful goals.