- Client-centered
- Skill focused
- Texas based
About Melissa
Melissa Laneaux is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She works from Texas and focuses on practical steps people can use when life feels overwhelming. Her manner is steady and respectful, aimed at making it easier to talk through hard things.
She offers a calm, structured space where people can name what’s wrong and try small changes. Sessions focus on building coping skills and improving day-to-day functioning. Melissa uses clear tools to address mood disorders, anger, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Melissa incorporates Client-Centered Therapy alongside approaches like cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy. That means she centers the person’s experience and uses straightforward strategies to change thoughts and behaviors when useful. Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools show up when attending to patterns in close relationships and attachment issues.
She also works with people facing trauma and abuse, sexual assault, substance issues, and self-harm thoughts, helping them develop safety plans and steadying routines. Body image, shame, loneliness, and young adult transitions are other common topics in her work.
Overall, Melissa focuses on practical outcomes - clearer thinking, better emotion regulation, and stronger coping skills. She supports each person in choosing goals that matter to them and practices skills between sessions to make progress felt in everyday life.
How Melissa’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and meeting a person where they are. It focuses on the client’s goals and priorities and helps people feel heard as they work through painful feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can be helpful for strong mood swings, anger, or self-harm urges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That can mean using the client-centered stance to shape sessions and adding CBT or DBT skills when a person wants clear, hands-on tools. The plan evolves with progress and feedback.
Session formats were not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online therapy useful because it can fit into busy days, cut commuting time, and make regular check-ins easier to keep. Other practical benefits include shorter check-ins when needed, the ability to use phone rather than video for lower bandwidth, and scheduling that can better match work or school breaks.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
15+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Melissa help with?
She helps people work on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, bipolar symptoms, and coping with life changes, among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is compassionate and structured, focusing on practical coping skills while centering the client’s experience and preferences.
What is her background and experience?
Melissa has 15 years of clinical experience working with mood disorders, trauma, addiction, and relationship patterns in individual therapy.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Session formats were not specified in the biography; please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.