About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She brings a warm, respectful style to sessions and focuses on clear, practical help for everyday struggles. Her work centers on reducing anxiety and depression, improving relationships, and handling life transitions.
She uses straightforward methods drawn from attachment-based work, client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical strategies, and emotionally-focused approaches. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Melinda tailors conversations so they match each person’s needs and goals. Clients often come with stress, grief, trauma, addictions, or problems with intimacy and self-esteem. She also helps people navigate parenting stress, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
Additional concerns addressed include abandonment, attachment issues, body image, codependency, and divorce-related stress. Melinda emphasizes practical tools alongside emotional work. That can mean skill-building for managing strong feelings, practicing new communication patterns, or tracking thoughts that get in the way.
She blends supportive listening with focused strategies to help people make steady changes. Based in Florida, she combines clinical therapy with life coaching skills to support goals outside sessions. Her approach avoids labels and centers on respect, sensitivity, and collaboration.
If someone is ready to start, she offers a clear, step-by-step process to begin scheduling care.
How attachment and skills-based work translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past and present relationships shape feelings and behavior. In sessions this looks like slow, curious conversation about important relationships and learning new ways to connect and trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with steady practice. It often includes short exercises or thought records to use between sessions for anxiety, depression, and stress. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they try methods that fit the person’s situation and adjust the plan over time based on what works. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or coaching between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility for people juggling work, family, or travel while keeping the focus on practical tools and relationship work.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English