Missy Cohen, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Melissa (Missy) Cohen completed her master's degree in Social Work from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and has over 25 years of experience working with people of all ages. She specializes in eating disorders, body image, trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions (college, divorce, family dynamics, LGBTQIA+), and parent/child relationships.

Missy utilizes various approaches during her sessions and pulls elements from Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based, compassion focused, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Acceptance and Integration Training (AAIT) to tailor each session towards clients’ own unique journeys. When using AAIT, Missy takes her clients from an emotionally charged dual state to a non-dual awareness and non-charged state. Her clients are then taught how to practice this regularly at home so that they can begin to feel more at ease with themselves. AAIT helps alleviate psycho-emotional pain, establish goals, resolve problems, and ultimately promotes individuals to live a more calm, peaceful, and authentic life.

By developing a therapeutic relationship and creating a safe, non-judgmental space to heal, Missy offers her support by establishing coping skills and gaining insight and awareness around personal challenges. Her goal is to help every person live a more genuine and fulfilling life.

Specialties: Individual, couples, and family therapy; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Acceptance and Integration Training (AAIT); Internal Family Systems (IFS); compassion and mindfulness based therapy; eating disorders, body image issues, and picky eating in adolescents; mood disorders (anxiety, depression); past trauma; parent/child relationships; life transitions (college, divorce, LGBTQIA+), and family dynamics.

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