About Desiree
Desiree Malam uses practical, skill-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 15 years of experience. Her style is direct and calm, focused on helping people take steps that make everyday life easier.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for managing strong emotions and improving coping.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help clients find momentum and set realistic goals. Desiree works with adults on issues like grief, depression, eating concerns, intimacy-related problems, and questions about identity or sexual orientation. She also supports people navigating career changes, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and separation or divorce.
Practical communication work is often part of sessions when relationships are a concern. Sessions mix short-term problem solving and longer work on trauma and abuse when needed. She aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful, with clear steps to try between meetings.
People can expect a conversation that names current concerns and maps small, doable actions. Desiree offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy lives. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with the right therapist and schedule.
This process is set up so people can move forward at their own pace.
Practical approaches for online care
Desiree draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thinking patterns that get in the way and replace them with practical behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress management. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel intense.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review current concerns, goals, and preferences and then decide together which methods to try first. That plan can change as progress is made or new priorities appear so the work stays focused and responsive.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and interactive skill practice, while phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or not being on camera is preferable. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, short skill coaching, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English