About Melba
Melba (Fran) Roberts is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on grief, loss, and life changes while also helping with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns. Fran emphasizes a respectful, compassionate approach in each session.
She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling and Human Services from the University of Colorado. Much of her early work was at Pikes Peak Hospice, where she spent nine years supporting people facing serious illness, end-of-life issues, and bereavement.
Background and approach
That hospice background shaped her skill with grief and caregiving stress. In sessions she uses client-centered therapy as a foundation, meeting people where they are and listening first. She also draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help with anxiety, coping skills, and shifting unhelpful patterns.
Emotionally-focused and Jungian ideas inform how she attends to relationships and deeper meaning. Fran works with concerns like parenting strain, family conflict, caregiver fatigue, guilt and shame, isolation, and self-esteem. She also supports people coping with cancer, hospice and end-of-life decisions, and forgiveness work.
Her aim is to help people find their own strengths and practical ways to manage hard feelings. Her style is calm, direct, and steady. Sessions move at a pace set by the person in therapy.
Fran helps people talk through decisions, build coping tools, and reconnect to sources of self-love and resilience.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking action guided by personal values. It can help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety or stuck during life changes.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, with the therapist offering empathic listening and nonjudgmental support. This approach helps people who need a steady space to make sense of grief, relationship strain, or self-esteem concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and offers practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress management, and building coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Fran will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, ongoing reflection, and shorter contacts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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