Melissa Fernandez
Counselor, PsyD, LMHC (she, her)
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $125
- Couple Sessions $150
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- All Savers
- AvMed
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Golden Rule
- Optum
- Oscar Health
- Oxford
- United Healthcare Student Res
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Florida / MH14868 Melissa Fernandez
- In Practice for 10 Years
- Certificate from Adoption Competent Therapist 2017
- Degree/Diploma from Masters in Arts Clinical Psychology / 2014
- Attended Florida Institute of Technology, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Graduated 2023
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Trauma and PTSD
- Sex Therapy
Expertise
- Bisexual
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Divorce
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Racial Identity
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Transgender
- Veterans
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Cognitive Processing (CPT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- EMDR
- Feminist
- Humanistic
- Multicultural
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Women's EMDR Healing Clinic
Receive brief EMDR applied in a group setting (1-8 individuals). The goal of this session is to help contain and reduce the likelihood of delayed onset PTSD, depression, anxiety, OCD, substance use, relationship and health issues that can be exacerbated by disrupting events & situations.
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Location
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713
EMDR Recovery & Growth Clinic
The intention of this virtual clinic is to move beyond healing into self- and other-intimacy expansion and personal growth. EMDR will be applied in a small group (1-8 screened individuals) to help you discover what your soul wants and desires for this new chapter in your life! You are welcome to join once or multiple times. Please consider attending Divorce Healing Clinic first to ensure you are ready for this fresh start.
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Location
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713
Location
Additional Location
BayTree Center
Lake Mary, FL 32746
(727) 594-0028