About Melissa
Melissa Laneaux is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience working in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and addiction. Her approach is steady and practical, aimed at giving everyday tools that make a real difference.
Melissa builds a calm, predictable space where clients can talk through what’s hardest. She listens closely and helps people set small, concrete goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice and straightforward strategies for coping when emotions feel overwhelming. She uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior strategies, and emotionally-focused ideas. Those tools help with mood shifts, relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, and substance use concerns.
Melissa adapts techniques to fit each person’s needs rather than following a rigid plan. Her style balances warmth with structure. She encourages self-reflection while teaching skills for day-to-day life.
People can expect a respectful, collaborative process that honors their pace and priorities. Melissa speaks English and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She practices in Texas and holds the LCSW credential, which is listed as TX LCSW.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s timeline.
How Melissa’s Approaches Fit Online Care
Melissa often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-focused, which can help with anxiety, mood challenges, and stress-related problems.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT strategies can be helpful when emotions feel intense or when someone wants concrete tools to steady daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then tailor methods to match those needs. This collaborative planning helps ensure the chosen strategies feel useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using structured, evidence-informed techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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