About Melinda
Melinda Labbe uses a blend of practical approaches to help people who are feeling overwhelmed. She brings 20 years of experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Florida. Melinda aims for straightforward conversations and clear steps you can try between sessions.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, trauma and grief. She also helps with parenting strain, career questions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and body image worries.
How Melinda works
Her additional work includes attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family questions, and care for people involved in kink and BDSM culture. Melinda draws on Attachment-Based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and emotionally focused approaches. She adapts those methods to match each person’s needs, combining talking, skill practice, and goal-setting.
Sessions are intended to be practical and down to earth. She has supported people through difficult life changes, abuse and recovery, and complex relationship patterns. Her style is warm and interactive with an emphasis on respect and sensitivity.
Melinda avoids stigmatizing labels and works to create a space where people feel heard. Melinda offers sessions in English and practices in Florida. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
If someone wants to begin, they start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Melinda lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Melinda works with
The areas below are the ones Melinda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Melinda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and safety in relationships. Online sessions can help uncover how early bonds affect current relationships and teach new ways to relate. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions CBT often includes homework, skill drills, and short exercises to do between appointments. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and expressing emotions to improve connection and reduce conflict. Through video or phone work, EFT helps people notice feelings and try new, softer ways of communicating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean trying one approach first and adjusting it over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not practical, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, use less bandwidth when needed, and do brief follow-ups between longer appointments. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review homework, and keep progress moving regardless of location.
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