- Client-centered care
- Skill focused
- English sessions
About Melissa
Melissa Tejeda, LPC, focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, or past trauma. She aims to help clients build practical coping skills and find ways to move forward. Her tone is calm and straightforward, and she creates a nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters to them.
Melissa has six years of clinical experience and spent a decade working as a school counselor with children, teens, and their families. That school counseling background shaped her skill at helping people sort through complex emotions and everyday practical problems. She uses clear tools rather than long theoretical explanations.
Her approach draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful patterns and make small, steady changes. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas and mindfulness practices to teach emotion regulation and grounding skills. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and how to get there.
Melissa pays attention to family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment wounds, and patterns like codependency or control problems. She also supports people dealing with grief, body image concerns, eating issues, and addiction-related struggles. Conversations are aimed at concrete steps for daily life, such as coping plans, communication habits, and routines that support mood.
Based in Texas, Melissa practices as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Sessions are provided in English. To begin, clients use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How Melissa’s approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's priorities. In practice this means sessions focus on what each person wants to change and on building a collaborative plan together. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to shift them, which helps with anxiety, depression, and many mood concerns.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Melissa will discuss goals, try methods that suit the client's needs, and adjust over time based on what helps. That collaborative process helps match skills training, mindfulness practice, or solution-focused steps to everyday life challenges.
Confirm the session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into work or family schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also support using worksheets, breathing or grounding exercises during sessions, and practicing new communication habits between meetings.
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Experience
6+ years
Credentials
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Melissa commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and related issues like codependency, grief, body image, and addiction concerns.
What kind of therapy style does she use?
Melissa uses a client-centered stance and practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, DBT concepts, mindfulness, and solution-focused work to build coping skills.
What is her background and clinical experience?
She has six years of clinical experience plus ten years as a school counselor working with children, teens, and their families.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.