Melissa Tejeda, LPC

Melissa Tejeda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her approach aims to reduce painful symptoms and improve day-to-day coping so people can move forward with more ease.

She creates a nonjudgmental space where clients learn skills to manage strong emotions and reshape unhelpful thinking. Melissa blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered methods to tailor sessions to each person's needs. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach distress-tolerance and emotion-regulation techniques.

Before private practice she spent time working in school settings with children, teens, and families. That background contributes to a practical focus on problem solving and clear skill-building during sessions. She has six years of counseling experience overall and holds a Texas LPC credential.

Sessions cover many concerns including mood disorders, trauma, relationship and family issues, addiction, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, career stress, and ADHD-related challenges. Melissa also addresses attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps clients set achievable goals, practice new habits between sessions, and track small changes over time. The work is paced to fit each person’s needs and life commitments.

How Melissa's Approaches Work Online

Melissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term goals, which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-based space. That approach emphasizes understanding each person's experience and letting the client's goals guide the work. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are incorporated when strong emotions or relationship struggles need clear strategies for regulation and communication.

Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Melissa collaborates with clients to figure out what feels most useful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust techniques over time so therapy stays relevant and manageable.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill teaching, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, and daily life while still practicing the methods discussed in therapy.