About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson uses a grounded, person-focused approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. Melakee aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy parents and adults.
She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
Background and approach
Attachment-based and emotionally-focused work guide how she supports people around closeness, conflict, and intimacy. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, not full of jargon. Melakee listens for each person's strengths and values before suggesting steps forward.
She often helps people set small, manageable goals for coping with life changes, grief, trauma, or burnout. Coaching elements may be used to support career decisions and managing day-to-day demands. Her background includes graduate training in professional counseling and marriage and family therapy, plus a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy and biology.
That mix shapes a practical, down-to-earth style that values both insight and action. Therapy focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her. Sessions typically involve talking through current struggles, trying new coping strategies, and reviewing progress each week.
Melakee helps people build skills for stronger communication, healthier boundaries, and steadier mood management over time.
Integrating therapeutic approaches into online care
Melakee often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching clear skills to manage symptoms.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify personal values and take committed steps toward them. ACT emphasizes noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and choosing actions that align with what matters most.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Melakee will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust strategies as progress is made. That collaborative process helps decide which techniques to keep using and which to change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video gives the closest experience to an in-person meeting. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging can fit into busy days and allow brief, focused exchanges or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English