About Melissa
Melissa Robles is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Louisiana. She has five years of experience in the mental health field and has worked across schools, short-term inpatient hospitals, clinics, and agency settings. She meets people where they are and aims to build trust early so work can move forward at a comfortable pace.
Her background includes supporting people facing trauma, sexual assault and abuse, depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
She has also worked with victims and witnesses of crime, people navigating parenting and career challenges, and individuals experiencing life transitions. Melissa has led both groups and one-on-one sessions in a range of settings. Melissa uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She uses trauma-focused methods for processing painful memories and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that show up across relationships. Her style is warm and inviting, and she intentionally creates a space where clients can feel understood.
She believes laughter can be part of healing and that treatment should reflect each person’s culture and life story. Melissa combines techniques rather than following a single method so treatment matches the person. People choose her for help with stress, anxiety, grief, intimacy and self-esteem concerns, eating and body image struggles, postpartum and pregnancy-related issues, and problems around communication and commitment.
She also supports those coping with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and the effects of domestic violence.
How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online
Melissa often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of coping. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stressful life changes. She also uses trauma-focused therapy when people need to process traumatic memories and reduce their ongoing impact on daily life. Trauma-focused work aims to make traumatic memories less overwhelming and to strengthen coping skills.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Melissa works with each person to decide which methods fit their history, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as the work progresses so sessions stay practical and relevant to what the person wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing processing, and moments when typing feels more comfortable than speaking.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English