Meet Melissa
My name is Melissa Huang, and I am a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) in Washington, DC and Maryland and a National Certified Counselor. Bringing warmth and empathy, I will meet you where you are, help you understand the root causes of your struggles, and work with you to achieve your wellness goals. I honor all my clients’ identities, supporting them toward loving and authentically expressing all parts of themselves. My expertise includes trauma, PTSD, physical, emotional, sexual, and spiritual abuse, attachment repair, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, low self-esteem, identity formation, and the impacts of marginalization.
Therapeutic Approach
I take a person-centered and trauma-informed approach to counseling, emphasizing attachment and emotional expression. I believe that, while our past experiences impact our present realities, they do not have to define us. Using talk therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems, and mindfulness practices, I help my clients explore those parts of their past that are impacting them in unhelpful ways, process their experiences, and pursue physical, emotional, and relational healing.
As a trauma specialist, I love helping clients who feel hijacked by their nervous systems find freedom from these triggers and show up the way they want to in their relationships.