Melissa Russiano, LCSW, LISW
Expertise- Social work
Education- MSW, Florida State University
- BS Social Work, Azusa Pacific University
Affiliations- The Daring Way
Melissa Russiano is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice, which has developed into a specialty helping working professionals. She is also a professor of graduate social work studies at Simmons University online.
Russiano has a proven track record helping professionals avoid burnout in a unique way that holds clinicians accountable through laughter, tears, blunt (yet very supportive) feedback and quirky analogies that are grounded in solid theoretical research. Russiano practices in a virtual setting in the states of California, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
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