About Melba
Melba (Fran) Roberts is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on grief, loss, and life changes and brings a steady, compassionate presence to each session. Fran keeps language simple and practical so worried parents can follow along easily.
Fran spent much of her career working in hospice and grief counseling. That background shapes how she listens and responds when someone faces illness, death, or major life transitions.
How Melba works
She also supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and caregiver strain. Her approach centers on creating a calm space where clients can speak at their own pace.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow the person's lead, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and notice values that guide choices. Emotionally-Focused and Jungian ideas inform deeper emotional work when it feels useful. Sessions often include straightforward tools for managing stress and improving communication.
Fran offers practical coping skills for guilt, shame, isolation, and compassion fatigue, and helps people facing cancer, hospice, or end-of-life concerns find ways to process feelings. She also supports parents working through family and parenting strain. People work with Fran to regain a sense of balance after loss, to build self-love, and to handle life changes without feeling overwhelmed.
Her style is kind, respectful, and paced to each person's needs.
Melba lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Melba works with
The areas below are the ones Melba selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with grief, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve day-to-day functioning. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the person's lead so the therapist supports what the client needs to say and feel.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Fran will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which combination of methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone write when it fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on grief, stress, relationships, and caregiver concerns without long commutes or scheduling barriers.
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