About Melinda
Melinda Del Rio Quinones-Miranda is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who uses evidence-based therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control. She combines approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to address unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
Attachment-based methods guide work around relationship patterns and feelings of abandonment or isolation.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is available for trauma processing when appropriate. Her background includes work in criminal justice settings, re-entry programs, recovery homes, and youth and adult shelters. Melinda completed a Master of Social Work with a focus on trauma and interpersonal violence and holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Psychology.
She has six years of clinical experience. Sessions often include straightforward practice - learning new coping strategies, adjusting patterns that increase anxiety, and addressing substance use with harm-reduction goals when relevant. She aims to make therapy collaborative and feedback-driven so the work fits each person's needs.
People commonly bring concerns about self-esteem, life changes, grief, mood disorders, and difficulties with communication or connection. Melinda works in Oregon and conducts sessions in English.
Online approaches for anxiety and trauma care
Melinda uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and adjust thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression. CBT sessions focus on simple, practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving.She also draws on EMDR for trauma work when processing distressing memories is needed. EMDR involves guided attention and structured protocols to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and make memories feel less overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life circumstances. That collaboration can include trying skills-based work first, then adding trauma-focused techniques if they seem helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR when appropriate, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill coaching. These options help fit care into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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