Melissa Pierce
Compassionate, experienced guidance for meaningful change
LPC Texas
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, LGBT
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Melissa
Melissa Pierce is a Texas-licensed LPC with two decades of experience helping people address a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, sleep difficulties, and LGBT-related challenges.
Background and approach
She approaches care with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, shaping conversations and treatment plans around each client’s particular needs and goals. Her practice also includes work with attachment and commitment issues, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and responses to natural or human-caused disasters.
Melissa favors collaborative, person-centered work that encourages clients to name priorities and participate actively in the process. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, existential exploration, and EMDR to help people develop practical coping skills, reframe unhelpful patterns, and process difficult experiences.
A steady, nonjudgmental therapeutic stance is central to her practice, and she aims to create a space where clients feel supported as they take steps toward change. Available across Texas, Melissa communicates in English and provides multiple session formats to fit different lifestyles and schedules.
She welcomes clients who are ready to begin by matching on goals and availability and moving forward at a pace that feels right for them.
Online Approaches and Flexible Care
Melissa integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR into her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression and to develop practical coping strategies for stress and sleep problems. EMDR offers a structured method for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity, which can be helpful for those coping with trauma and abuse.She also uses client-centered principles to shape the therapeutic relationship, prioritizing empathy, respect, and collaboration. Finding the right approach is a shared process: the therapist will work with the client to explore which methods match the client’s goals, comfort level, and life circumstances, and may blend techniques over time to respond to changing needs.
Online therapy with Melissa is offered through multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult, and let clients choose the communication style that best fits their daily life and comfort level.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English