About Melody
Melody LeVane is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 15 years of experience. She works mainly with adults and draws on a range of methods to address stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. Melody values straightforward conversation and practical tools parents can use between sessions.
She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Over the years she has helped people facing grief, compassion fatigue, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and challenges tied to attachment and caregiving.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people through divorce, blended family issues, and chronic illness concerns. In sessions she blends mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral ideas with client-centered listening. That means she helps clients notice patterns, test small changes, and build skills that fit their day-to-day life.
She also uses narrative techniques to help people reframe old stories and find new ways forward. Melody aims for a calm, collaborative tone. She invites clients to set clear goals and practice tools between sessions.
The work often focuses on small, doable steps that add up to meaningful change. Outside work she enjoys cooking, arts and crafts, and time with family and four rescue dogs. Her practical, steady approach is meant to help people feel seen and leave sessions with concrete next steps.
How Melody’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or sleep disruption. It gives clear exercises people can use between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, letting clients lead the pace and topics so goals reflect their priorities.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Melody collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, lifestyle, and comfort level. That may mean trying CBT skills for a while, then shifting to ACT or more narrative work based on how things progress.
Online therapy offers practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is difficult, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school schedules and let people use approaches like mindfulness exercises and behavioral experiments in their everyday environment.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English