About Melissa
Melissa McLaurin is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma and depression, and helps people facing parenting and relationship challenges. She brings a calm, respectful presence and aims to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Melissa listens first and asks questions that help people notice what matters most. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness methods to help people name feelings and try small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes respect and cultural awareness. She aims to understand each person’s background and daily life before suggesting steps forward. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what each person needs.
Melissa has ten years of experience supporting people through grief, family conflict, anger, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She often helps with issues related to attachment, adoption and foster care, and impulsivity. Her experience includes supporting people with ADHD and autism spectrum concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Melissa offers a mix of therapy styles and tailors them to the individual. She encourages clear, workable goals and regular check-ins to track progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Melissa commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on your goals and experiences while she listens and reflects back what she hears.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Melissa will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the approach if something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face from a convenient location, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports shorter ongoing contact between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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