Dr. Melissa Oleshansky, MI Psychologist 6301012612
Practical, body-aware therapy and coaching
About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Oleshansky brings 25 years of clinical work to her practice. She is a Michigan psychologist licensed as MI Psychologist 6301012612.
She greets people with warmth and straightforward support, and she often goes by "Dr. O." Her background includes a doctoral degree in clinical health psychology and two master’s degrees.
Over two decades she has focused on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and life transitions. She also works with concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and direct. She pairs coaching with psychotherapeutic tools to help people manage the body’s stress response and build resilience. Sessions include learning coping skills, strengthening self-esteem, and addressing relationship and communication problems.
Somatic ideas inform her work by helping people notice how stress shows up in the body and use that awareness to calm reactions. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and increase values-based action. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental, compassionate guide who offers clear steps and gentle challenges.
The goal is to help people feel more confident and able to handle change. Dr. O focuses on practical change that fits each person’s life and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts without getting stuck in them and take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Somatic Therapy emphasizes awareness of the body and how sensations relate to stress and emotions; it helps people learn simple ways to settle physical tension and respond differently to triggers. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help people improve communication and connection in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in sessions. That process is flexible and adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for busy lives. These formats make it possible to attend sessions from home, check in between meetings through messaging, or use phone calls when video is not convenient. Many people find online options reduce travel time and make it easier to build consistent routines for skill practice and coaching.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English