About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience. She uses a practical, person-first approach to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. Her manner is direct and compassionate so people can talk about hard things without feeling judged.
She blends attachment-focused work with client-centered conversations and cognitive tools. That means she pays attention to how close relationships shape feelings, listens to what matters to each person, and teaches specific skills for handling distress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing new responses, and setting small, achievable goals. Melinda has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and career challenges. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, ADHD, body image, codependency, and struggles tied to abandonment or foster care histories.
Her experience spans many kinds of life disruption and recovery. Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels while still offering concrete strategies like thought tracking and emotion regulation.
Over time she helps clients build steadier coping and clearer communication. Melinda practices in Florida and provides services in English. She offers a mix of phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions so people can pick what fits their routine.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works.
Attachment and skill-based care delivered online
Melinda uses attachment-focused approaches and cognitive strategies to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current close relationships affect feelings and expectations, and it helps people build safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts that fuel anxiety or depression and practicing small behavior changes to reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit those needs in a collaborative way. That makes it easier to adjust the plan as things change.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and teaching skills, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving even when schedules are tight.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English