About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people manage anxiety and stress. She draws on ten years of experience and a background in professional counseling to guide clients toward clearer choices and calmer days. She believes counseling should feel straightforward and real.
Sessions focus on what matters now - coping skills, clearer communication, and values-based steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Melakee aims to help people reduce worry, handle relationship strain, and recover from grief or trauma so they can move forward. Her training includes work in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, alongside attachment-focused and emotionally focused approaches. In sessions she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and offers practical tools to try between meetings.
The emphasis is on small, doable changes rather than talk alone. Melakee also supports people facing life transitions, career stress, caregiver strain, and concerns about self-esteem or body image. She works with those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the aftermath of abuse or abandonment when those issues appear in adults' lives.
She earned two master’s degrees from Liberty University and a bachelor’s in environmental policy and biology from Western Maryland University. The combination of personal commitment and professional training shapes a clear, steady approach. If someone wants a counselor who is direct, compassionate, and action-oriented, Melakee aims to provide that steady support.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and choose actions that match their values. It can reduce stuck feelings and help with anxiety by clarifying what matters and setting small behavioral goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for managing anxious thoughts, changing behaviors that maintain distress, and building routines that support mood and focus.
Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas guide work on relationship patterns and emotional responses. They help people understand why certain triggers feel intense and practice new ways of connecting and responding to others.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions make it easier to access regular support. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick coaching, brief check-ins, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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