Melinda Labbe

Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She brings a warm, interactive style and focuses on clear, practical work that helps people cope with life stressors and make concrete changes. Melinda listens without judgment and adapts conversations to each person’s needs.

She often helps people facing anxiety, depression, career challenges, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, addiction, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and body image or self-esteem problems. Career issues are one of the areas she addresses alongside general life transitions.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally-focused work. That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings, uses practical tools to shift thinking and behavior, and helps people name and process strong emotions.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused. Melinda helps people set clear goals, try small experiments between meetings, and build skills that fit their daily lives. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats each person with sensitivity and respect.

Melinda trained and practiced across a variety of clinical settings over two decades. She brings experience working with trauma from abuse, communication and conflict issues, blended family adjustments, and caregiving stress. Her office is in Florida and she conducts sessions in English.

How her approaches guide online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. In sessions this looks like talking about how connections affect reactions and practicing new ways of relating to others and oneself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses straightforward exercises to change patterns that cause stress or block goals. Clients often use short between-session tasks to test new ways of thinking and behaving and track progress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions and then make changes in how they communicate those needs to others.

Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan if something feels off or needs a different emphasis.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when time is limited, or avoid travel on a tight schedule. Licensed professionals can use the same therapeutic tools online as in person, helping clients apply skills to everyday challenges and career decisions.