About Melanie
Melanie Reyes is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, phobias, and parenting strain. She supports those dealing with grief, addiction, sleep problems, self-esteem concerns, career stress, and major life changes. Melanie brings a calm, straightforward approach to sessions.
She listens first and then works with each person to set clear goals. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings. Melanie combines talk-based work with body-aware and mindfulness practices to address how emotions show up in daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach includes client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience and EMDR for those working through traumatic memories. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people build coping skills and find motivation for change. Melanie draws on psychodynamic ideas when early patterns show up in current struggles.
Over 12 years of practice in California have shaped her pace and style. Melanie emphasizes simple, doable skills and steady progress rather than quick fixes. She explains techniques clearly and checks in about what is or isn’t helping.
Sessions are offered in English and Tagalog and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She holds a California licensed marriage and family therapist credential - LMFT - and works with a wide range of life and mental health concerns. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling follow the Start Therapy steps.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify goals and next steps. This approach helps with anxiety, relationship struggles, and self-esteem concerns.EMDR involves gentle, structured processing of painful memories so they feel less overwhelming. It is used when past traumatic events continue to affect daily life and mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. Changes are reviewed over time so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit everyday life. Video calls let the therapist and client read expressions and body language. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework help, and on-the-go support. These options make it easier to keep a steady schedule and use therapy in everyday routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Tagalog
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