About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She offers steady, respectful care and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and interactive, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
In sessions she listens first, then helps clients set small goals. She uses ideas from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work to reduce overwhelm and improve daily routines.
Background and approach
People come for help with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and addictive behaviors. Melinda also works with concerns linked to identity and intimacy, including LGBTQ matters, body image, and kink-aware issues. She supports people coping with career shifts, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
Attachment issues, abandonment, and adoption-related concerns are among her additional focus areas. Her background combines psychotherapy and life coaching across varied settings. Over twenty years she has helped clients navigate trauma, communication problems, and conflict without relying on stigmatizing labels.
Melinda tailors sessions to each person’s needs and pacing. Sessions use straightforward language and practical tools. She draws on client-centered listening, CBT techniques, emotionally focused work, and skills from dialectical approaches when helpful.
The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and improved relationships.
Attachment, emotion work, and practical online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust. In one or two sessions this approach can identify repeating patterns that cause anxiety and help people try new ways of relating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognize and work through strong feelings in relationships and within themselves. It supports building clearer emotional understanding and improving intimacy or communication problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to pick methods that fit. That means blending client-centered listening with CBT or DBT skills when those tools match the client's needs. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching-style support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible around work, parenting, and travel. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to the chosen format so progress continues between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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