Melinda Labbe, LMHC, LPC
Practical, relationship-focused counseling for parents and adults
Book with Melinda- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Florida, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical and coaching experience. She offers calm, practical guidance for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and parenting challenges. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at parents and individuals who need clear tools and steady support.
Melinda blends approaches that help people understand patterns and practice new skills. She uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to name and work through feelings.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thoughts into manageable steps that change behavior. Her work also addresses intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care issues, attachment wounds, blended family stress, and body image.
She pays attention to communication, codependency, and control struggles that often underlie everyday conflict. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to a person's needs. Melinda prefers an interactive style that balances listening with practical suggestions and short-term skill building.
She draws on coaching techniques when people want concrete plans for change. Based in Florida, Melinda has supported people through life transitions, career shifts, and recovery from relationship rupture. She uses straightforward language and stepwise strategies so parents and busy adults can apply what they learn between sessions.
What Melinda works with
Everything Melinda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melinda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melinda lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Melinda commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and to help people change long-standing patterns. This approach can be helpful for those struggling with connection, attachment issues, or parenting concerns.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down thoughts and actions into concrete steps. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress because it gives clear exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Melinda will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She mixes listening, emotional reflection, and hands-on skills so people can test what helps and adjust the plan as they go.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and brief coaching. These options make it possible to continue progress when schedules or distance would otherwise get in the way.
Questions people ask about Melinda
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, trauma and grief, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm and interactive, combining listening with practical exercises and coaching to help people build new skills and change patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and life coach working with a wide range of concerns and populations.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the LMHC and LPC credentials and practices from Florida with licensure noted as FL LMHC and OK LPC.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients based in the permitted regions indicated by her licensure.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.
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