About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Oleshansky brings 25 years of experience as a Michigan psychologist to her work. She uses clear, practical coaching and therapy strategies to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
Many seekers find her direct and compassionate style easy to follow when they need steady support. Dr. Oleshansky focuses on helping adults build resilience and manage the body's stress response.
She combines psychological approaches with mindfulness and practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize actionable steps to strengthen self-esteem and confidence while addressing relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and concerns like sleep and eating difficulties. Her background includes a doctoral degree in clinical health psychology and two masters degrees in clinical psychology and school and community psychology. She also identifies as a registered yoga teacher, which informs some of her mindfulness work.
She uses a coaching tone alongside therapy to help people move forward through transition and recovery. In sessions she is direct but nonjudgmental. She offers science-informed techniques drawn from cognitive and mindfulness-based approaches, while attending to attachment and emotional patterns that affect relationships and behavior.
Work may include skill-building, values clarification, and emotion-focused strategies. People seeking help with addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, caregiver stress, or career and parenting pressures can expect an individualized plan. Dr.
Oleshansky aims to help clients gain practical tools and clearer direction so they can handle life’s demands more confidently.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replacing them with practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods from ACT and CBT and, when helpful, attachment-informed or emotion-focused ideas. This is a collaborative process aimed at matching techniques to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer conversational sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when you need flexible timing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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