About Melinda
Melinda Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people under stress. She helps with anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, depression, and addictions. Melinda keeps sessions straightforward and respectful so people can say what they need to say.
She draws on several well-known approaches to tailor care to each person's needs. Melinda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation when stress feels overwhelming. Melinda has eight years of experience in counseling and holds an LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, in Texas.
Her background includes work with intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, bipolar disorder, and ADHD along with a range of family and relationship difficulties. She is comfortable addressing complex grief, post-traumatic stress, and issues tied to guilt, shame, and isolation. In sessions she focuses on listening first and then building practical tools together.
Clients can expect clear goals, skill-building exercises, and room to process hard feelings. Melinda works with people exploring polyamory or non-monogamous relationships, money-related stress, and forgiveness work. Sessions are offered in English and Melinda accepts international clients.
She offers multiple ways to connect so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework; it often helps with panic, mood disorders, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers clear skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what works. Clients and therapist decide together which tools and methods fit best for the issues at hand and the client's preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be faster to join and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and a way to work through thoughts when typing feels easier. These options give flexibility and make regular work on goals more manageable for many people.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English