About Melissa
Melissa Perez-Halley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that reduce day-to-day overwhelm. Melissa listens first and adapts her approach to each person.
Sessions are conversational. She works with clients to set clear goals and practice skills between meetings. Her practice draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Emotionally focused ideas guide work on connection and closeness in relationships. Mindfulness practices are used to bring attention to the present moment and reduce anxious reactivity.
Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about making changes. These tools are mixed based on what each client needs most. Melissa has five years of clinical experience and holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
She works from Texas and conducts sessions in English. She aims to make the process straightforward so people can focus on progress rather than paperwork. Beginning therapy can feel hard.
Melissa aims to make the first steps manageable, with a simple matching process and flexible session formats that fit busy schedules.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience and following their lead to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone wants a therapist who listens carefully and adapts to their needs.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and patterns. It breaks problems into small steps, teaches practical exercises, and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Emotionally-focused therapy looks at emotions and interaction patterns that affect relationships. It helps people identify feelings, communicate more clearly, and repair connection where it matters most.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and make adjustments over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that best match the client's goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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