Melissa Tejeda

Melissa Tejeda, LPC works with people who feel stuck by anxiety, depression, eating concerns, trauma, or life changes. She aims to help clients find practical ways to feel steadier and move forward. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving self-perception, and creating small steps toward daily relief.

Her approach emphasizes clear, usable tools. She uses client-centered care alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused strategies are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person's goals.

Melissa brings six years of clinical experience and a longer background in school counseling. Before private practice she spent a decade working as a school counselor with children, teens, and families. That experience shaped how she explains skills in plain language and how she supports parents facing stress around parenting or family conflict.

In sessions she listens without judgment and helps people test out small changes. She often teaches concrete coping techniques for anxiety, mood shifts, and body image concerns. Work can include short goal-focused plans or deeper trauma-focused work when needed.

Melissa holds a Licensed Professional Counselor license in Texas. She practices in English and works with people across a wide range of concerns including grief, addictions, ADHD, relationship issues, and identity-related stress. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.

How Melissa Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection to help people clarify what matters. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills and can help when strong emotions or relationship conflict feel overwhelming.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Melissa will work with each person to learn their goals and try approaches that fit those needs. If something doesn't fit, she adjusts the plan together with the client so the work stays useful and manageable.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions are arranged. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also supports using real-life examples from daily routines and practicing skills between meetings to see what helps most.