About Melissa
Melissa Robles is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She has five years of clinical experience and has worked across schools, short-term inpatient mental health hospitals, clinics, and agency settings. Melissa focuses on creating a warm, inviting space where people can begin to untangle stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns.
She has supported people facing relationship struggles, grief, parenting challenges, career transitions, and intimacy-related issues. Her background includes work with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, people with postpartum depression, and those coping with life changes.
How Melissa works
She has run both group and individual sessions in varied settings. Melissa uses a mix of practical strategies and exploratory work. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, trauma-focused techniques to address painful events, and psychodynamic approaches to understand repeating patterns.
She also uses solution-focused tools to set clear, achievable goals. The approach is collaborative and tailored. Melissa meets each person where they are and blends methods that fit the problem and the person.
She aims to make sessions approachable, and she believes laughter and human connection can be part of healing. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, concrete coping skills, and time to reflect on deeper patterns. Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs while working toward practical changes.
Melissa lists 5 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
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches and how they work online
Melissa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often leads to clearer coping steps and manageable goals. Trauma-focused therapy helps process and reduce the hold of painful events by using structured techniques to address symptoms and reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their concerns, goals, and comfort level. That decision can change as progress is made, and sessions can blend different approaches when helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use isn’t ideal. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflection, and more frequent contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare, and daily life while using the approaches above to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
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