Melinda Labbe, LMHC, LPC

Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and issues around intimacy and parenting. Melinda aims to treat each person with respect and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels.

Her work draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work. She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of responding, and strengthen emotional connection in close relationships. Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person's needs.

Melinda also integrates attachment-based ideas and dialectical skills when helpful. That can mean looking at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions, or using skills to tolerate strong feelings and make clearer choices. She adapts techniques for people coping with trauma, grief, addiction, or major life changes.

Over two decades she has supported people facing complex situations such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and intimate relationship challenges. She brings experience addressing body image, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress.

Melinda practices in Florida and holds the credentials LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor). She conducts work in English and does not accept international clients. To begin, users follow the site's Start Therapy flow to match and schedule sessions.

How these approaches guide online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape present feelings and reactions. Work in this style looks at connection needs, trust, and how to change long-standing interaction patterns that affect relationships and intimacy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. It is useful for stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and for building practical coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then test methods collaboratively. That means plans can change as needs become clearer.

Confirm session formats before booking so you know how sessions are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for steady check-ins during life changes. Different formats can also support shorter check-ins or longer, in-depth conversations depending on what a person needs. Licensed professionals tailor pacing and tools to match everyday schedules rather than promising a one-size-fits-all plan.