Melissa Hunt, LMSW

Melissa Hunt is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 18 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, family concerns, parenting challenges, and career transitions. As an LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker), she blends practical skills with an empathetic, person-centered stance to support each person’s unique path toward greater resilience and clearer life purpose.

Her practice emphasizes collaborative work on communication, relationship transitions, mood management, and everyday pressures that affect functioning at home and work. Melissa has extensive experience across life stages and often focuses on women's issues, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and problems that arise from family of origin patterns. She also works with issues such as domestic violence, divorce and separation, substance use concerns, impulsivity, infidelity, jealousy, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD).

Treatments draw from client-centered methods along with evidence-based techniques to build coping strategies, improve interactions, and address problematic thoughts and behaviors. Melissa aims to create an empowering environment where individuals and families can explore challenges, develop practical communication tools, and identify strengths to move forward with clearer goals and greater stability.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Melissa Hunt integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a collaborative relationship that supports exploration of values and goals. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address mood or substance-related concerns.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to teach concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for relationship conflicts, impulsivity, and intense emotions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - Melissa works with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals and then tailors techniques from these approaches to fit their situation with input from the client.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or limited local resources. These formats make it easier to access licensed professionals and continue care from home or another convenient location while maintaining ongoing therapeutic work and skills practice.