About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Chovan brings 13 years of clinical practice to work with individuals facing a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Background and approach
She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and has worked across settings including community mental health, state prison, independent practice, child protective services cases, and programs for at-risk youth. Her background includes experience with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, trauma and abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and parenting and family concerns.
Her approach is warm, respectful, and interactive, emphasizing hope, empowerment, and education as core elements of therapy. Dr.
Chovan uses a variety of evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and client-centered techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs.
She is also pursuing specialized trauma work through additional training in trauma modalities, while continuing to offer broader supports for issues like addiction, grief, intimacy and relationship concerns, career and life transitions, and compassion fatigue. Dr.
Chovan practices in Alabama and conducts sessions in English. Prospective clients who want an engaged, collaborative therapist focused on practical skills and personal growth may find her style well suited to their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Chovan integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into her online practice to provide practical tools and skills. CBT helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. DBT emphasizes learning emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can assist with intense emotions and relationship difficulties.She also uses client-centered principles that prioritize the person’s experience, offering a collaborative atmosphere where therapist and client work together to choose approaches that fit the client’s goals and preferences. Determining which methods to use is a joint process, and adjustments are made as therapy progresses to better match needs and outcomes.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, online therapy with Dr. Chovan provides flexibility for scheduling and for communicating in ways that suit different comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions while balancing work, family, or other commitments, and allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent therapeutic support across a range of concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Georgia, Illinois
- Languages
- English