About Melissa
Melissa Tejeda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people move past anxiety and stress. She writes and speaks plainly so worried parents and busy adults can understand next steps. Her approach centers on practical tools that make daily life feel more manageable.
Melissa creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about how they feel stuck. She helps clients learn coping skills for anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on small, concrete changes rather than long explanations. Her background includes six years as a practicing counselor and earlier work as a school counselor for a decade. That mix shaped a straightforward style that balances real-world strategies with emotional support.
Melissa draws on methods that support thinking changes, emotion regulation, and present-moment awareness. Typical sessions include skill-building for stress, techniques to reduce anxiety, and steps to address relationship or family concerns. She also works on issues like self-esteem, grief, mood challenges, and addiction-related struggles.
Conversations aim to leave people with tools they can use between visits. Melissa often combines short-term problem solving with longer-term work on attachment, boundaries, and self-worth. She speaks English and practices in Texas as an LPC.
Her goal is to help clients feel less overwhelmed and more able to take steady next steps.
Practical approaches delivered online
Melissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. CBT focuses on changing thinking and behavior patterns that keep anxiety and low mood going.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means sessions follow the client's concerns and pace while the therapist offers empathy and reflective listening. This approach helps people feel heard and better able to consider change.
Finding the right blend of methods is a collaborative process. Melissa will work with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals, comfort level, and everyday routines rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or school schedules while keeping care consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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