About Laurie
Laurie Melendez uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people navigate life changes and build self-confidence. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with seven years of experience. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on clear steps clients can try between sessions.
She concentrates on family concerns, self-esteem, career decisions, and coping through transitions. Laurie also helps with communication problems, control issues, money and financial stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, self-love, and workplace challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to untangle problems and identify small, doable shifts. Her work often blends Cognitive Behavioral ideas with narrative and solution-focused strategies. That means noticing unhelpful thought patterns, reauthoring personal stories, and choosing practical steps that move a person forward.
Conversations are shaped to each person's situation and goals, not a one-size-fits-all plan. Laurie has spent much of her counseling career working with teens from varied backgrounds and with different concerns. She brings that experience into sessions with other clients by keeping language simple and actionable.
The focus is on developing skills people can use in daily life. She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while offering coaching-style guidance when helpful. Laurie encourages small experiments and real-world practice so progress feels tangible and sustainable.
Practical approaches for online progress
Laurie uses approaches that translate well to online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing out new behaviors to reduce stress and build confidence. Narrative Therapy helps people reassess the stories they tell about themselves and choose different meanings that support healthier decisions. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on setting clear goals and finding immediate steps that lead toward those goals.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Laurie will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying options, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping work focused on real-world change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English