LCSW
Melissa Lou Koerner
You’ve spent a lifetime carrying your burdens. Her job is to help you finally exhale.
Lou is a therapist with 25+ years of experience helping people navigate the messy, meaningful, and often hilarious business of being human. She’s a generalist at heart, which means you don’t have to fit into a diagnostic box to work with her. If it’s part of your story, it’s welcome in the room.
Over the years she’s supported adults, families, caregivers, Veterans, adoptive families, and folks moving through grief, trauma, identity shifts, and major life transitions. From school hallways to hospice rooms to VA clinics to private practice, she’s learned one thing over and over: people are far more resilient than they realize.
Therapeutic orientation
Her style is warm, grounded, and practical. She blends trauma‐informed care, attachment work, and evidence‐based approaches with a light dose of humor because sometimes the only way through a hard moment is to laugh at how absurd life can be.
Her favorite work these days is helping adults untangle enmeshment, estrangement, and parentification. There’s something powerful about watching people reclaim space in their own lives after years of carrying roles that were never theirs to begin with.
If you’re looking for a therapist who can help you untangle what’s heavy, honor what’s hopeful, and laugh a little along the way, she’s got a seat saved for you.
