About Melissa
Melissa Tejeda is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people who feel stuck by depression, anxiety, trauma, or life transitions. She keeps sessions direct and approachable so parents can quickly understand what to expect and how therapy might help their child or family member. She works in a calm, nonjudgmental way and helps clients build practical coping skills.
Conversations focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, managing strong emotions, and creating small habits that ease daily strain.
Background and approach
Melissa uses simple, real-world exercises rather than complicated jargon. Before moving into clinical practice, she spent a decade as a school counselor working with children, teens, and families. That experience shaped her ability to talk with caregivers and young people in plain language and to translate therapy into everyday routines.
Melissa has six years of professional counseling experience, including three years in independent practice. Her approach draws on client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and solution-focused work to meet immediate concerns and longer-term goals. Clients can expect collaborative sessions where goals are set together.
She aims to help people reduce overwhelm, improve relationships, and regain a sense of control over daily life. Sessions move at a practical pace and focus on what can make life feel better now.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Melissa draws on client-centered therapy to keep conversations focused on each person's priorities and values, creating a space where goals come from the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are included to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions run high.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Melissa will work with each person to try methods that match their needs and goals, and adjust strategies as progress is made. The first few sessions often involve setting concrete goals and picking a mix of tools to test in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for more in-depth work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging suits quick updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around school, work, and family responsibilities.
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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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