About Melinna
Melinna Perez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with ten years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy in a warm, direct way and aims to make sessions easy to follow for people feeling overwhelmed. Melinna speaks English and Spanish and brings practical tools for stress and anxiety while also addressing mood, eating, and relationship-related concerns.
Her work often focuses on anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with body image and eating-related issues, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy or communication problems. Melinna uses clear, goal-oriented methods so people leave sessions with steps they can try between meetings. Melinna blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She leans on client-centered listening to understand what matters most. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and acceptance-based strategies to build actions that match personal values. Sessions can include short skills practice, talks about past and present experiences, and planning to handle real-life triggers.
She offers therapy by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. People often choose Melinna when they want straightforward help with anxiety, stress, relationship strain, or changes like separation, adoption, or gender questions. Her style is compassionate, nonjudgmental, and focused on practical progress.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone to the right schedule and format.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them. It helps when anxiety or avoidance keeps someone from doing what matters, by building action even when feelings are uncomfortable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and many day-to-day struggles by teaching practical skills to test beliefs and shift behaviors.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods fit best. That collaborative process makes it easier to try tools that feel useful and to adjust the plan over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility and simple ways to keep momentum. Video calls let people do fuller conversations and see facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick reflections, midweek coaching, or tracking progress between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy alongside daily life and to practice skills in real situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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