About Melissa
Melissa Robles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with five years of experience in the mental health field. She has worked in schools, short-term inpatient mental health hospitals, clinics, and agency settings. Melissa focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate other life challenges.
Her background includes individual work and group facilitation across a wide range of concerns. These include trauma and sexual assault and abuse, depression, relationship and communication problems, parenting and family difficulties, grief, eating and body image issues, and postpartum depression.
Background and approach
She has also supported people facing career strain, life transitions, and panic symptoms. Melissa uses several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address worried thinking and unhelpful behaviors.
Trauma-focused work helps people process difficult experiences, and solution-focused strategies help set short-term goals and practical steps. Her manner is described as warm and inviting, with an emphasis on building trust early in the work. She intentionally mixes methods and adapts them to the person in front of her instead of applying a single formula.
Humor and moments of levity are welcome when they fit the situation. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Melissa practices in Louisiana and holds an LA LPC credential.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Melissa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a practical way to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Trauma-focused therapy is used to help process painful experiences and reduce their ongoing emotional impact, often with careful pacing and clear goals.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, needs, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what works best.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations, phone calls can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text sessions allow for quick check-ins or communication without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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