About Melissa
Melissa Averett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 14 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and a range of other struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can take to feel steadier and more in control.
She earned a master's degree in education counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University and has experience in both residential addiction recovery and outpatient counseling.
Background and approach
That background gives her familiarity with recovery challenges and with longer-term mood and trauma issues. Melissa likes to start by building a strong rapport. She uses a client-centered approach to help people name what they want to change and set clear goals.
Sessions then include skill teaching and collaborative problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including cognitive restructuring, is part of her work. She helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts, challenge them, and replace them with more balanced thinking.
Practical skills such as healthy boundaries, assertive communication, and coping strategies are regularly taught and practiced. Melissa also supports people dealing with parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, ADHD-related challenges, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to family of origin. She aims to bring warmth and empathy while keeping sessions focused on achievable steps and real-life changes.
How Melissa Uses Practical Approaches Online
Melissa uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's goals and experiences. This method centers the conversation on what matters most to the client, helping them name priorities and choose next steps that fit their life.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including cognitive restructuring, to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress-related issues because they lead to clear, testable actions between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Melissa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adapt methods as they learn what works best. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels realistic and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter focused check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing reflections or brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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