Melinda Labbe, LMHC, LPC

Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience in psychotherapy and life coaching. She brings a warm, respectful manner to sessions and aims to create a calm space for people to talk about painful or stressful issues.

She often uses cognitive behavioral therapy as a practical way to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new coping strategies. Melinda also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to help people understand patterns in their relationships and feel heard during sessions. Her style is interactive and down-to-earth rather than overly technical.

Melinda has worked with many concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing parenting stresses, career challenges, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Additional focuses include attachment problems, body image, codependency, and issues related to adoption and foster care.

Over the years she has helped people manage anger, improve communication, and rebuild after domestic violence or separation. Sessions typically involve talking through problems, practicing new behavioral strategies, and building skills for long-term coping. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and respect.

Melinda practices in Florida and conducts therapy in English. Her approach centers on listening first, then developing a tailored plan with clear, doable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.

How CBT and Attachment Work Online with a Therapist

Melinda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different behaviors. CBT sessions focus on specific problems, set clear goals, and give simple exercises to try between meetings.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and reactions. That approach helps with trust, communication, and recurring conflict by identifying patterns and trying new ways of relating. Client-centered techniques are used alongside these approaches to make space for the person's experience and to guide the pace of work collaboratively.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Sessions begin with listening and then testing practical steps to see what helps.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a busy schedule or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people check in between sessions or use shorter real-time exchanges. These formats give flexibility for different routines while still allowing regular therapeutic work.