About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She draws on ten years of experience to help people find clearer ways forward when life feels overwhelming. Melakee uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-focused work, emotionally-focused methods, and client-centered listening.
She aims to create a steady, supportive space where clients can name what matters and take small steps toward it.
How Melakee works
Sessions are straightforward and geared to daily life concerns like stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. Her practice covers a wide range of issues such as depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, body image and eating issues, career stress, and burnout like compassion fatigue.
She also helps people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment challenges, aging or caregiver stress, chronic illness, and other long-term difficulties. Melakee emphasizes collaboration. She listens first, then offers techniques and perspectives that fit each person’s needs.
That may look like practicing new behaviors, trying different ways to think about a problem, or focusing on emotional connection and values. Her training includes two master’s degrees from Liberty University and a bachelor of science in environmental policy and biology. Melakee combines clinical knowledge with a down-to-earth approach to help people build coping skills, improve relationships, and pursue meaningful change.
Melakee lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Melakee works with
The areas below are the ones Melakee selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It often focuses on small, practical moves that reduce getting stuck and increase engagement in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on emotional connection and safety in relationships, helping people understand how early bonds affect current ways of relating and intimacy.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try techniques that suit your situation, and adapt as you go. Together you can decide whether to emphasize values work, skill building, or emotional connection based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful when you need to fit a session into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to keep up with regular sessions and integrate therapeutic tools into everyday life.
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