Melissa Shower's career as a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist has included work with individual adults, children, adolescents, couples, and groups. Her approach has been both cognitive and solution focused, and some of her areas of expertise include working with grief, addiction, depression, anxiety, and helping couples with communication problems. For a period of approximately two years she ran a group for individuals suffering from different forms of substance abuse and/or addiction that focused on such concerns as boundary issues, codependency, anger, communication, tools for staying clean and sober, and more. Melissa has spoken on Effective Communication Techniques for the women's group at Irvine Community Center, has been published in The Journal of NAMI California, and has also participated in the television special Women and Mental Illness. She also worked as part of the Counseling Team International,doing Counseling for the San Diego County Firestorm Victims, and currently, she is part of the Orange County Collaborative Divorce Solutions Team acting as a certified collaborative coach and is mediation certified. Recently Melissa took part in a radio interview for Radio Disney. Topics included the effects of divorce on children and the differences between coaching and therapy. Most recently, Melissa took part in an online roundtable discussion explaining the different ways to get a divorce, with her focus on Collaborative divorce. The segment is called 'How To Get a Divorce.'