About Melanie
Melanie Reyes is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship strain. She offers calm, clear guidance for those feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure where to turn. Melanie speaks English and Tagalog and practices in California as an LMFT.
She uses a person-centered style that keeps the conversation focused on the client's needs. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Melanie listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Her work often combines eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, mindfulness, and psychodynamic ideas. EMDR is used to address distress tied to past events. Mindfulness practices help with grounding, sleep, and anxiety.
Psychodynamic conversation looks at patterns that keep showing up. Melanie also draws on motivational interviewing to support people facing change, such as career shifts, recovery from addictions, or coping with chronic illness. She helps clients break big problems into small, doable steps and build skills they can use between sessions.
Sessions may focus on single-issue coaching, shifting habits, or processing losses and attachment wounds. She has 12 years of clinical experience and supports people working through parenting strain, compassion fatigue, body image concerns, and more. The approach aims to increase clarity, self-esteem, and practical coping.
If someone is ready to begin, Melanie guides them through a short intake and a plan tailored to their goals. Therapy emphasizes steady progress and real-world strategies rather than quick fixes.
How Melanie Uses Different Approaches Online
Melanie commonly combines client-centered work with EMDR and mindfulness to help people process distress and rebuild calm. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what a person says, helping them feel heard and guiding conversations toward the goals they name. EMDR is an approach used to reprocess upsetting memories so they have less emotional intensity and can be integrated into daily life. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and help manage strong emotions.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Melanie will talk with each person about their needs, history, and goals, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts plans as progress is made and invites feedback so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and guided EMDR exercises, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Tagalog
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