About Melody
Melody Libby is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Melody uses practical talk and skills practice to help clients understand themselves and move forward.
She blends client-centered listening with structured approaches to increase coping and reduce distress. Sessions focus on what the person brings to the room - their goals, limits, and priorities.
How Melody works
Melody guides clients in building routines, managing strong emotions, and improving communication in close relationships. Her work addresses a broad range of concerns including addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, and career stress. She also helps with more specific struggles such as attachment and abandonment, blended family concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and body image.
Melody pays attention to how life events shape day-to-day functioning. Therapy combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools with mindfulness and existential reflection. That mix creates space for practical skill building and deeper meaning-making.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on usable strategies. Melody practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online formats to suit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an appointment.
Melody lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Melody works with
The areas below are the ones Melody 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach and online options for skill building and reflection
Melody draws heavily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to help manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and lifestyle. That might mean using CBT exercises one week and DBT skills coaching the next, adjusted as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework review, and coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep practicing skills between appointments.
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