- Years in practice
- 5
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Career difficulties
About Melissa
Melissa Robles is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She has five years of experience in mental health and has worked in schools, short-term inpatient hospitals, clinics, and agencies. Her background includes both individual and group work across a wide range of concerns.
She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma, sexual assault and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Melissa uses an approachable, warm style and believes in building trust before beginning deeper work. Her clinical approach blends practical problem-solving with attention to past experiences that shape behavior. Melissa draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies and trauma-focused work to address symptoms and safety.
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring patterns and solution-focused techniques for setting clear, achievable goals. She offers multicultural-informed care and aims to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Sessions are conversational and may include concrete skills practice, short-term goal setting, and reflection about underlying patterns.
Melissa also values humor and normal everyday moments as part of healing. People choose her when they want a direct, supportive therapist who will listen and help create practical steps forward. Her practice covers concerns like parenting, body image, postpartum depression, panic, and multicultural issues.
She meets people where they are and adjusts the approach to fit their goals.
What Melissa works with
Everything Melissa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melissa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melissa lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Melissa’s Methods Work Online
Melissa uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and stress because it focuses on skills you can practice between sessions.She also uses trauma-focused therapy to address the effects of traumatic events. That work aims to reduce symptoms tied to trauma and build coping skills for intense memories or reactions. Melissa draws on psychodynamic ideas when helpful to look at recurring patterns that affect relationships and decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, history, and daily life. Treatment plans can shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or when writing feels more natural. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent work and try therapy in ways that fit everyday life.
Questions people ask about Melissa
What concerns does Melissa address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, eating and body image concerns, parenting, postpartum depression, and related challenges.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions are warm and conversational with a focus on building trust. Melissa mixes practical strategies and exploration of patterns to meet immediate needs and longer-term goals.
What kinds of experience does she have?
Melissa has five years working in schools, short-term inpatient mental health hospitals, clinics, and agency settings, providing both individual and group work.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana and practices with that credential in the state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different preferences.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a therapy match?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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