About Melissa
Melissa Tejeda supports people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life. She meets clients where they are and focuses on small, practical steps that can reduce anxiety and lift mood. Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with six years of clinical experience in behavioral health.
She uses straightforward, skills-based work to help people cope with stress, trauma, addiction, and mood concerns. Sessions aim to build clear tools for managing intense feelings, solving problems, and improving daily routines.
How Melissa works
The focus is on what helps in everyday life rather than on jargon or long lectures. Melissa draws on client-centered techniques to listen closely and shape therapy around each person’s needs. She also applies cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking.
Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness skills are used when stronger emotion regulation and present-moment focus are needed. Her background includes experience in school counseling and independent practice, which informs a practical approach to goals like improving relationships, managing parenting stress, and coping with grief. Melissa pays attention to how attachment, family patterns, and feelings of abandonment or shame can affect current struggles.
Sessions are offered in English and are designed to be collaborative and paced to each client’s comfort. People who want concrete coping strategies and a calm, steady therapeutic presence often find this approach helpful.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and shaping sessions around each person's needs, helping people feel heard and understood while setting practical goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple ways to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking, which can be practiced between sessions for issues like anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try techniques that fit. This collaborative stance lets the plan shift over time based on what feels most useful to the client.
Online therapy makes those approaches easier to access through flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give options for quick reflections, ongoing support between sessions, and written practice of skills. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day routines.
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