About Melissa Garvey

I'm a licensed clinical social worker in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Most of my work is with teenagers who have anxiety, and most of them are girls between 13 and 18.

I'm also someone who remembers what it felt like to be anxious in school. Knowing what helps with anxiety and being able to use it in the middle of a panic attack are two very different things.

Over the years I kept hearing the same thing from the teens I work with: these techniques work in your office, but I can't remember them when I'm actually anxious. Finding Your Calm and the Inner Calm Planner are my answer to that.

1. 1Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Certified Life Coach
2. 2Master of Social Work, University of New Hampshire
3. 3Certified in CBT, DBT, and Clinical Trauma Levels I and II
4. 4Over 18 years treating anxiety in teens
5. 5Ran Monterey County's adolescent intensive outpatient program
6. 6In private practice in Carmel