Hello, I’m Melissa.
Melissa Muller is passionate about working with individuals and families seeking growth, a deeper sense of life purpose, and who desire to know and experience their full potential. Her gifts lie in her curiosity and genuine care for others, their stories, and their need to tell them. She connects with people, and she is able to instantly make them feel at ease, understood, and strengthened by providing a place to voice and own their “stuff”.
Melissa’s empathy shines through in her ability to state the hard things, to say the comforting things, and to ask questions without leading. Her love for the human experience, and for the connection/bond that is formed in a therapeutic relationship is made evident in each of her interactions, reflections, and questions. Melissa’s passion for being in tune with others is most clear when one sits down to talk with her for any length of time.
More About Melissa Muller
Approach to Therapy
My approach integrates the emotional, physical, spiritual, and social components that encompass you and how they impact your development. Not only are each of these areas considered, they are deeply explored as is relevant to your needs.
My goal is then to provide support and practical feedback to help you effectively address personal life challenges with compassion and understanding. We work together to help you build on your strengths and attain the personal growth you are seeking.
Specialties
My areas of expertise include:
ADHD
Trauma & PTSD
Depression
Anxiety & Stress
Relationship Challenges
Identity Development
Services
Individual Counseling
Adults and Adolescent Counseling
ADHD Coaching: Check-out ADHD COLLECTIVE!
Experience
My range of experience includes counseling at a substance abuse treatment center, church-planting overseas, and conducting research on neuro-feedback and its effects on ADHD and anxiety. I have been in private practice since 2012 and truly love my work. I don’t take this for granted as I know many struggle to find something meaningful that also provides for them financially.
These experiences differ in many ways, and each has been a meaningful step along the way in my own journey of personal growth. I recognize that each client also has their own unique growth process.
In addition, I started ADHD COLLECTIVE with my husband Adam, which provides ADHD coaching.
Theories
Internal Family Systems (for more about IFS click here…)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
National & State Certifications
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #4012)
National Certified Counselor (NCC #283197)
Education
Vanderbilt University: M.Ed. in Human Development Counseling: Clinical Mental Health
Avila University: B.A. in Psychology: Human Behavior