About Melinna
Melinna Perez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with ten years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers care through online and telephone formats as part of her practice. Melinna aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, relationship struggles, and identity questions.
She draws from a range of methods and tailors sessions to each person’s needs.
How Melinna works
That can mean working on practical skills to manage mood and anxiety, exploring how past experiences affect current relationships, or building clearer communication patterns. Sessions typically focus on small, realistic steps that fit into everyday life. Melinna has supported people with trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
She also helps with attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, body image and eating problems, gender dysphoria, and intimacy-related issues. Work with anger, self-esteem, codependency, and communication problems is also part of her practice. Therapy sessions may include emotion-focused conversation, behavioral strategies, and acceptance-based exercises.
The intent is to help people identify what matters to them and then move toward those values with practical tools. Melinna prioritizes a nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can speak openly. To begin, users follow the site process to match with a therapist and schedule sessions.
Melinna’s practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with session formats that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Melinna lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Melinna works with
The areas below are the ones Melinna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and then taking committed steps toward those values. It uses simple exercises to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced thoughts and behaviors. It often includes concrete homework and short exercises to practice between sessions, which can be useful for stress, mood, and eating concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for regulating intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and managing distress. These skills are practical and often taught in bite-sized ways to use during difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is a good fit for full-session work and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing accountability between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward meaningful change.
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