Melissa Innocenzi, LMFT

Melissa Innocenzi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 26 years of clinical experience. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in art from the University of Texas in 1991 and completed a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Phillip’s Graduate Institute in California in 1998. Her post-graduate training emphasized client-centered approaches, narrative therapy, and grief work, and she has pursued additional training in evidence-based practices for grief recovery.

Her clinical background spans private practice and clinic settings, working with children, adolescents, couples, and adults across a wide range of concerns. Areas of focus have included grief recovery, relationship challenges, anxiety, and depression, along with work related to trauma, addiction, parenting, and self-esteem. She offers care for both brief, solution-focused needs and longer-term therapeutic goals.

Melissa’s therapeutic style is warm, interactive, and grounded in humanistic principles that place the client at the center of the process. She blends talk therapy with practical activities clients complete between sessions to build progress, though she also accommodates a talk-only preference when that better suits a client’s needs. Her work draws on client-centered, mindfulness, narrative, psychodynamic, and solution-focused therapies to tailor treatment to each person’s circumstances and objectives.

Approachable and goal-oriented, she supports clients through life transitions, relationship shifts, and emotional struggles by identifying resources and practical steps that align with their values and strengths. Melissa is currently accepting clients in California and provides care in English.