Melissa DiSilvestroLISW-CP

Melissa DiSilvestro is a licensed independent social worker in South Carolina with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She also supports concerns related to parenting, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues that arise around pregnancy and childbirth.

Melissa takes a collaborative approach. She works with each person to set clear, manageable goals. Sessions focus on creating practical plans that fit into everyday life. She treats clients as the expert on their own story and builds on individual strengths.

Her background includes work in hospitals, schools, and outpatient primary care. That variety of settings shaped a straightforward style that aims for useful skills and steady progress. Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.

People can expect a calm, goal-oriented process that balances listening with concrete strategies. Melissa encourages small steps that add up to real change. She frames setbacks as part of learning and adjusts plans as needed.

She also addresses related concerns such as caregiver stress, workplace issues, postpartum depression, adoption and foster care challenges, and compassion fatigue. The focus is on what will help someone move forward, day by day.

How CBT Shapes Online Work and What to Expect

Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a practical way, helping people spot thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood and try new behaviors to feel better. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, postpartum mood concerns, and many caregiving or workplace stresses.

She emphasizes collaborative planning. Together the therapist and client identify goals, test small changes between sessions, and adjust the plan as needed. That gives clients clear steps and measurable progress rather than only talking about problems.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing appointments during work breaks or between errands. It can also let someone choose sessions that match how they feel that day, like shorter check-ins when needed. The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Licensed professionals, including therapists who use CBT, will work with clients to pick approaches and schedules that suit each person's goals and routines.