About Melanie
Melanie Gordon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Texas. She brings three years of professional mental health counseling combined with over 20 years of experience as a school counselor. Melanie focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like stress and anxiety.
She also supports people coping with grief, life changes, parenting concerns, and low self-esteem. Her style centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths. Melanie uses client-centered work, solution-focused steps, and cognitive behavioral strategies to address problems.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to use creative and artistic strengths as part of the process when that fits. In sessions she treats clients as partners in finding what helps. She asks questions, offers clear tools, and checks in about what is working.
The goal is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes. Melanie's background in schools shaped a practical, down-to-earth approach. That experience informs how she helps people sort priorities, set small goals, and handle family-related stress and caregiver strain.
She also supports people facing issues around pregnancy, postpartum changes, and women's concerns. People who reach out can expect calm guidance and concrete options. Melanie invites clients to describe their challenges and values, then she helps map small steps forward.
Taking the first step is acknowledged as brave, and she aims to make the next steps feel doable.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Melanie uses client-centered methods that focus on each person's story and strengths. This approach involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping goals around their values. It tends to help people who need a supportive, collaborative space to sort out feelings and choices.She also uses solution-focused techniques that help clients set short-term, practical goals. These steps are oriented toward immediate, observable change - useful for managing stress, parenting challenges, or moving through life transitions. Cognitive behavioral strategies are part of her work as well, offering concrete tools to notice patterns of thought and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Melanie will talk with each client about goals, try methods that fit their preferences, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She treats therapy as a partnership where client feedback guides the path forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility - video is useful for full conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. The variety makes it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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