Melissa White

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I have used CBT for the past 23 years to help individuals identify how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. We then use this information to create new and helpful ways of coping with stress, anxiety, depression, negative thinking and suicidality.

Eclectic

In my 23 years of experience, I have learned and used a variety of therapy techniques with adults, and adolescents wanting to learn more effective means of coping with anxiety, depressions, grief, suicidality, ADHD, negative self image, and emotional dysregulation. Today, I draw concepts from those techniques to create an approach tailored to individual strengths, challenges, and goals including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Bereavement Therapy, Trauma Informed therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Mind Body Approach, Psychoanalytic, Play Therapy, Strength based and many others.

Dialectical Behavior (DBT)

I received several trainings in DBT and utlized concepts with children and adolescents on an inpatient crisis stanbilization unit and utilize the concepts in my day to day therapy with adolescents and adults.

Grief Therapy

I worked as a Child Bereavement Specialist with Community Hosptice and provided bereavment therapy for children and provided education and guidance to parents and the community on how to best approach grief with children. I take the concepts I learned about the bereavement process with all my clients, children and adult and assist indidvudals with moving through their individualized grief process.

Mind-body approach

As a Registered Nurse, I fully integrate my knowlege and experience with physical health and medical issues and how those may impact a persons mental health.