About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Chovan is a licensed clinician who brings 13 years of hands-on therapy experience to her work in Alabama. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping people facing anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and life changes.
Her manner is warm and respectful, and she prioritizes listening first. She emphasizes hope, empowerment, and education in sessions. In practice she uses straightforward, practical methods.
She helps clients learn coping skills, manage distressing thoughts, and practice new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship and communication problems, codependency, and issues connected to parenting or career stress. Phobias are part of her broader set of concerns. Her background includes work across community mental health, residential youth programs, correctional settings, and independent practice.
That variety informs how she adapts approaches to fit different situations and needs. She has supported survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and has experience with first responder and veteran concerns. While she continues to develop her trauma work, sessions still cover many everyday struggles like grief, anger, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
She blends several ways of working, choosing what helps each person move forward. Sessions are interactive and focused on clear goals. People who want practical tools and a collaborative relationship may find her style helpful.
She invites clients who want to be heard, learn, and make changes to connect and explore next steps.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship where the person leads the pace and goals. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood while deciding what changes to make. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address phobias. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for handling intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress in the moment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and track progress so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, coping prompts, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Georgia, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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