Melissa Colton, LMHC

Melissa Colton is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 27 years of professional experience. She works with adults across a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self esteem, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, LGBT issues, relationship and family challenges, grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting, anger, career transitions, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Her practice also addresses guilt and shame, life purpose, mood disorders, and social anxiety and phobia, using evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person’s needs.

Melissa integrates client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies and draws on mindfulness and existential perspectives when they serve the client’s goals. She approaches therapy holistically - attending to body, mind, heart, and spirit - and emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change. She believes people carry strengths born from hardship and that those strengths can become resources for growth. Quoting Carl Jung, she holds to the idea that "you are not what happened to you, you are what you choose to become," and she supports clients in rediscovering their own answers, building resilience, and moving toward the life they want to create.