Melissa Tejeda, LPC

Melissa Tejeda is an LPC who helps people feeling stuck by guiding them toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions. She focuses on practical steps that reduce anxiety, ease depression, and address the fallout from past trauma. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people regain a sense of forward movement in daily life.

Melissa draws on six years of clinical experience alongside a decade working as a school counselor with children, teens, and families. That mix informs a down-to-earth approach that emphasizes skill building and simple, actionable strategies. Sessions often focus on coping skills, clearer communication, and ways to tackle worry or overwhelming feelings.

She uses methods from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are also part of her toolbox when clients want short-term, goal-oriented work. Melissa approaches trauma with care and attention to pacing and safety.

People come to her for many concerns, including stress, relationship difficulties, parenting strain, grief, eating and body image worries, midlife crisis questions, ADHD-related struggles, and addiction-related issues. She also addresses attachment and family-of-origin patterns that can affect how people relate to others.

Melissa practices in Texas and conducts work in English. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients follow the platform's Start Therapy flow, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

How Melissa’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room, offering a respectful, listening-first environment where the therapist follows the client's pace and concerns. This helps when someone needs space to understand feelings or make sense of life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it uses short exercises and experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills, which can be useful for strong mood swings and relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process means trying practical tools together and adjusting based on what helps most.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because formats are not listed in the biography. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. Talk with the therapist during the intake to clarify session options and find a cadence that fits daily life.