About Melissa
Melissa Mendez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She has worked online since the start of the pandemic and now focuses her practice on telehealth. Melissa helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma responses, grief, and ADHD-related challenges using practical, evidence-informed methods.
She began her path after studying Nutritional Sciences at Texas A&M University and moved into mental health care soon after.
Background and approach
Over the years she has concentrated on identifying trauma responses and supporting nervous system regulation after stress or adversity. Her recent work includes using EMDR for trauma-related symptoms. Melissa’s style is warm and direct.
She works collaboratively with clients and respects personal autonomy while offering structure when needed. Sessions often include self-reflection, skill building, and goal-focused steps for everyday life. In session she blends client-centered care with trauma-focused techniques and cognitive behavioral tools.
That mix lets her address mood symptoms, relationship strain, parenting stresses, and challenges that come with life transitions. The aim is practical change rather than quick fixes. Her approach recognizes each person’s unique needs and pace.
Therapy length varies depending on goals and progress. Melissa invites clients who want to try a thoughtful, steady process toward better coping and clearer daily functioning.
How Melissa’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experience. It involves active listening, reflection, and working at the client’s pace to build insight and self-direction. This approach helps people clarify values, make choices, and increase motivation for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors or coping skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, useful for mood, anxiety, and everyday stressors.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) targets distressing memories and the body’s reactions to them through a structured process. It is used to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories and associated anxiety or mood symptoms when trauma is a main concern.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each client about current problems, history, and preferences, then suggest a plan and adjust it over time. Clients help shape goals and the pace of work so treatment fits their life.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and full conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit work on healing into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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