About Melissa
Melissa McLaurin is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota with 10 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting concerns, and relationship strain. She also supports those coping with grief, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, and major life changes.
Melissa’s style is down-to-earth and respectful. She listens first and asks questions to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions are meant to feel collaborative rather than prescriptive.
How Melissa works
She aims to tailor the work to fit practical needs and day-to-day realities. Her approach draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify patterns and try different ways of responding. She also uses mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships affect current struggles.
Solution-focused strategies are used to set clear, achievable goals. Melissa has particular experience with family-related concerns such as adoption and foster care, blended family issues, fatherhood questions, and family of origin problems. She also addresses abandonment, attachment concerns, communication problems, infidelity, and caregiver stress.
Her work includes helping people manage compassion fatigue and impulsivity. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. People connect with her through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The initial steps are simple and meant to get people matched and scheduled quickly.
Melissa lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Melissa works with
The areas below are the ones Melissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to each person. It helps people feel heard and guides the work based on their goals rather than a preset plan. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies for changing unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify which methods fit their needs and goals. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Chat or text can work for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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