Melissa McCool

Melissa McCool, LCSW, is the Chief Product Officer at Ellipsis Health. She is a psychotherapist and the former founder of Stellicare, a behavioral health startup. In 2010, while working as a nephrology social worker, Melissa created a clinical program called Symptom Targeted Intervention (STI) to help address untreated depression in her dialysis patients. STI is now used in over 5000 dialysis clinics to improve the clinical outcomes of the most vulnerable patients. Since 2010, Melissa has conducted research, written articles, created training videos, and designed and developed products and software to improve mental health.

Melissa worked for many years as a psychotherapist at Kaiser Permanente in the outpatient psychiatry clinic in Vista, CA. She continues to see patients privately in her Encinitas, California office and specializes in treating complex PTSD using EMDR. When she isn’t working at Ellipsis Health, she enjoys modern dance, swimming in the ocean, and spending time with her husband, three kids, and dog. Her degrees are from UCSD and Columbia University.​