About Melissa
Melissa Ebneter is a licensed clinical social worker who brings six years of direct practice to conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a Clinical Social Worker designation in Georgia, and she works from a calm, matter-of-fact style to help people take the next step.
Melissa aims to make the first contact feel manageable and straightforward. She creates a space where people can name what they are feeling without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small shifts the person can try between meetings. Melissa pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and the mind, and she helps people notice patterns that get in the way of feeling steady. Her approach combines somatic awareness with acceptance and commitment therapy, client-centered conversation, and cognitive strategies.
She uses language that is plain and concrete, and she works with clients to set goals that matter to them. Melissa also brings skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation is needed. Common concerns she supports include compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, self-esteem struggles, and grief related to loss or end-of-life issues.
She also helps with communication problems, life purpose questions, postpartum mood changes, seasonal mood shifts, and social anxiety. Clients in Georgia will find practical support for coping with change and building day-to-day habits that reduce overwhelm. Melissa focuses on steady, doable work so people can return to routines that feel meaningful.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body - breathing, posture, tension, and sensations - to help people understand how emotions show up physically. This can be useful for stress, grief, and anxiety when symptoms feel rooted in bodily reactions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. It helps with motivation, life changes, and building a meaningful routine.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try techniques together to see what fits. Adjustments are made based on what helps the person feel more grounded and able to act on their priorities.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets the therapist and client use visual cues and somatic noticing; phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or someone prefers voice only. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, written reflection, and quick strategy reminders between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Georgia
- Languages
- English