About Melodie
Dr. Melodie Plaise is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.
Her approach is practical and respectful, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to manage overwhelming feelings. She draws on a mix of evidence-based techniques and trauma-aware care to shape sessions. Dr.
Plaise pays attention to how identity and life experience affect healing, and she aims to create an affirming, anti-oppressive space.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and values. Typical work includes building coping skills for panic or persistent worry, processing loss and trauma, and addressing mood shifts. She also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and relationship communication problems.
Sessions focus on concrete steps and real-life coping strategies. Dr. Plaise offers therapy in English and accepts international clients who connect remotely.
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet people where they are. Scheduling is arranged after a short matching process. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
She helps clients set practical goals and tracks progress together. The work is paced to fit each person’s comfort level and life demands.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Dr. Plaise uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill-building and processing difficult experiences. One common approach emphasizes teaching breathing and grounding skills, exposure-like steps for panic and worry, and behavioral strategies that reduce avoidance and improve daily functioning. These methods help with panic attacks, chronic worry, and sudden spikes in anxiety.She also applies trauma-aware practices that help people safely revisit painful memories, name their responses, and develop new coping patterns. This work often involves pacing, emotion regulation skills, and building a sense of safety in everyday life. For grief and loss, sessions combine attentive listening with routines and actions that support gradual adjustment.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will ask about your goals, your typical day, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she will suggest techniques and adapt them to your needs so the work fits your life and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy flexible. Video can mirror an in-person session and allow face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when schedules make synchronous meetings difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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