Melissa Timlin , LPC

Melissa Timlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in both Michigan and Missouri with more than ten years of experience in mental health and addiction care. She combines clinical training with a decade of active-duty service in the U.S. Navy, where she served as the Command Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor and as a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocate, bringing practical insights from those roles into her therapeutic work. Outside of her practice she spends time with her husband, four children, and their pug, Miss Pearl.

Her clinical focus spans stress, anxiety, addictions including substance and pornography or sexual addiction, grief and loss, motivation and self-esteem concerns, depression, perimenopause challenges, and serious mental illness. She emphasizes the client as the expert of their own story, helping individuals draw on their strengths to navigate difficult transitions and rebuild confidence. Melissa offers tailored guidance intended to align with each person’s values and goals while supporting steps toward a more purposeful life.

Her approach blends holistic methods such as restorative yoga, body-scan meditation, and pranayama with evidence-based therapies including Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address unhelpful patterns. In couples work she follows an Emotionally Focused Therapeutic framework that explores attachment styles to improve connection and communication.