Melissa Rohrbach, LPC

Melissa Rohrbach is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She has five years of clinical experience helping people navigate substance use and mental health concerns. Melissa focuses on practical growth and supports people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by life changes.

Her work centers on promoting personal growth and stronger interpersonal skills. She uses individual, couples, and group psychotherapy to help people understand themselves better and try new ways of relating. Sessions emphasize clear, doable steps rather than jargon or long lectures.

Melissa commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and challenges with sleep or eating. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, workplace pressure, relationship conflict, grief, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her additional interests include adoption and foster care concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome related issues, and blended family dynamics.

In the room she blends client-centered conversation with goal-focused tools. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to target patterns that cause distress. For trauma work she incorporates EMDR alongside mindfulness practices to help people manage overwhelming memories and build coping skills.

Melissa aims to make therapy approachable and actionable. She invites questions and straightforward conversation about goals. If life transitions or addictive behaviors are causing trouble, she encourages prospective clients to start a conversation and see if her style fits their needs.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It involves open conversation, reflecting feelings, and helping people set their own goals. This approach is useful for people needing validation and clearer self-understanding.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical skills. It often includes simple exercises between sessions to change thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or stress.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories through a structured protocol. It is commonly used for trauma and intense memories that keep causing strong emotional reactions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That choice is revisited over time and adjusted based on what helps.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking. The therapist can explain formats available and help fit sessions into everyday life, for example by making appointments that work around work schedules, offering shorter check-ins when needed, or using audio-only options for lower bandwidth. These practical choices are meant to make it easier to keep therapy consistent without assuming any specific format.