About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people find clearer direction when life feels overwhelming. She aims to offer steady, straightforward support for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and ADHD among other struggles. Melakee's path into counseling began from her own search for help.
That experience shaped how she listens and guides others. She believes no one is a problem to be solved and that therapy is a collaborative path toward more ease and functioning.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses practical tools and compassionate conversation. She draws on methods like cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused work. These approaches are adapted to each person's needs and goals rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Clients can expect straightforward discussion about what is getting in the way and small, actionable steps to try between sessions. Melakee also pays attention to patterns in relationships, identity, and life transitions that affect day-to-day wellbeing.
She holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling and a Master of Arts in Human Services with a marriage and family focus, both from Liberty University. Her base is in Texas and she brings ten years of counseling experience to her practice.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It works well for anxiety, depression, and practical problem solving. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and helps people change those patterns to improve intimacy and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing written support. These options help clients match the format to their schedule and comfort while working toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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