About Melissa
Melissa McLaurin is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and parenting or family concerns. She works with individuals struggling with relationship issues, grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and major life changes. Her approach is warm and respectful and aimed at practical steps that fit each person.
With ten years of experience, Melissa emphasizes listening first. She creates space to understand a person’s story and what they want to change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps toward them. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. That means conversations about thoughts and behaviors, plus skills for staying present and reducing overwhelm.
She may also draw on psychodynamic ideas to notice repeating patterns and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals. Melissa pays attention to how family history and attachment shapes current relationships. She can help people sort complicated family dynamics, parenting stress, adoption or foster care questions, and blended family challenges.
She also supports caregivers dealing with compassion fatigue. Her style is accepting and practical. Melissa aims to tailor sessions to what each person needs and prefers.
She helps clients build tools they can use between appointments to cope day to day. For people who are nervous about starting therapy, she acknowledges that first step is hard. Melissa works collaboratively, helping clients set the pace and focus on what matters most to them.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. It helps people clarify what matters to them and develop self-directed goals that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation; it often works well for stress, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa collaborates with clients to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to set achievable short-term goals and then adjust techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different situations. Video calls let people talk face to face when more connection helps. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, mood tracking, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and fit therapeutic work into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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