Carrie Melton, LMSW

Carrie Melton is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with 12 years of experience. She creates an affirming and inclusive space that centers the person sitting across from her. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and concerns common among LGBTQ people and young adults.

Carrie uses practical, easy-to-follow methods to help people manage day-to-day challenges. Sessions often involve looking at thought patterns, building coping skills, and practicing mindfulness exercises that fit into real life. She also helps people clarify values and set small steps toward changes that matter.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Conversations tend to be straightforward and paced to the client’s readiness. Carrie pays attention to communication habits and helps people try new ways of responding to stressful situations.

She has experience supporting people facing grief, trauma and abuse, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and intimacy-related concerns. Carrie also addresses career strain, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue in helping professionals.

Clients can expect a focus on skill-building, values-based choices, and practical strategies to reduce distress. Carrie aims to help people increase resilience and improve everyday functioning through small, sustainable changes.

How Carrie’s approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them and take small steps in that direction. It uses simple exercises to clarify values and build actions that match those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices to increase moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can help with emotional regulation and rumination.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carrie will talk with the client about goals, daily routines, and preferences, and then suggest methods that fit. The choice of techniques evolves as progress is made, and she aims to keep the process collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that helps. It can also let people use mindfulness exercises and practical tools in the places they live and work, so skills transfer directly into daily life.