Melissa Timlin , LPC

Melissa Timlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 10 years of experience in mental health and addiction counseling. She combines clinical training with practical insight gained during 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. Those roles inform her compassionate, informed approach to complex concerns such as addiction and trauma.

Melissa works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, low self-esteem, and addiction, including both substance-related and pornography or sexual addiction. She also supports clients navigating issues around motivation, perimenopause, serious mental illness, and a broad range of relational and life-stage challenges. Her practice includes attention to attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication or control issues.

Her clinical work blends evidence-based therapies and holistic practices. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help reshape unhelpful patterns, and integrates restorative yoga, body-scan meditation, and pranayama to support embodied coping and regulation. In couples work she uses an Emotionally Focused framework that explores attachment styles to strengthen connection and emotional responsiveness.

Outside of her professional life Melissa values family time with her husband, their four children, and her pug, Miss Pearl. She approaches therapy with the belief that each person is the expert of their own story and with a commitment to building practical strategies aligned with individual goals and strengths.