Melissa Fogle, LMFT

Melissa Fogle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away to feel steadier during hard times. Melissa is based in California and works with adults who are navigating grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes.

Her style is straightforward and supportive. Sessions are meant to be a place where clients can speak honestly and be heard without judgment. She helps people sort through difficult emotions and figure out what matters most to them now.

Melissa uses therapy tools that target both emotion and behavior. She guides clients through skills for managing intense feelings and offers techniques for processing past hurts. These approaches aim to reduce overwhelming symptoms and improve day-to-day coping.

Caregiver stress and communication problems are named focus areas, so Melissa often helps people dealing with the demands of caring for others. She also works on issues like control, guilt, forgiveness, and finding greater self-love and life purpose.

Finding help can feel risky, and Melissa acknowledges that first step takes courage. She supports clients as they test new ways of relating, practice clearer communication, and build routines that support healthier coping.

How DBT and EMDR Fit into Online Work

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on building skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress. In an online setting those skills are taught and practiced through short exercises, role-play, and repeated coaching so clients can use them in daily life.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process traumatic memories and reduce the emotional charge they carry. Online EMDR work typically follows a step-by-step process where the therapist guides clients through memory processing and stabilization techniques adapted for remote sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, needs, and preferences with each person and recommend ways of working that fit those priorities. That collaboration helps shape whether DBT skills work, EMDR processing, or a combination feels most useful.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a workday break, or scheduling without travel time. It also allows continuity when routines are disrupted, while letting therapists and clients focus on real-life practice between meetings.