Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience.
01About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She offers direct, empathetic care and focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, relationship challenges, and career struggles. Melinda keeps language plain and practical so people can understand their options quickly.
Her work blends attachment-focused thinking with cognitive and emotion-oriented techniques. That means she pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns, then helps people try new ways of thinking and relating.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person's needs rather than fitting everyone to the same plan. Melinda has helped people navigate trauma, grief, addictions, parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, and self-esteem issues. She also addresses more specific areas such as adoption and foster care stress, body image, codependency, and the dynamics around kink and alternative sexual cultures.
Her goal is practical progress, not jargon or labels. She draws on client-centered and dialectical approaches when people need acceptance alongside behavior changes. That combination supports both emotional processing and learning concrete skills for coping and communication.
Melinda uses short-term strategies and longer work when it makes sense. Sessions are offered from Florida and conducted in English. Her background includes life coaching and psychotherapy, which she combines to help people set realistic goals and take steady steps toward them.
She aims to make the first appointment feel manageable and purposeful.
02Credentials
- LMHC (Florida)
- License MH15035 · expires March 2027
- LPC (Oklahoma)
- License 3659 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1578766614 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melinda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Melinda names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Melinda names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. In sessions this looks like talking about recurring patterns and trying new ways to connect and feel safer with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Work can include straightforward exercises and real-world practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize attachment work, CBT skills, emotion-focused exploration, or a mix tailored to the person's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have deeper, face-to-face conversations when schedules or distance are a barrier. Phone sessions can be easier when low bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief support, homework guidance, or ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and addictions. Additional focuses include parenting strain, career concerns, body image, and codependency.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and interactive with plain language and practical goals. She mixes attachment, client-centered, cognitive and emotion-focused ideas to tailor sessions to each person.
How much experience does she have?
She has two decades of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and life coach. That background includes work with trauma, grief, and a wide range of emotional and relationship concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices from Florida. The profile lists FL LMHC and OK LPC as her credential details.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Different formats can suit check-ins, skills practice, or deeper conversation.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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