- CBT techniques
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Melody
Melody Libby is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, and anger. She also helps people dealing with parenting, career strain, grief, addictions, and changes like adoption or caregiving demands.
Melody focuses on clear, practical conversations. She listens to how problems show up in daily life and helps clients spot patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions aim to identify small, manageable steps that reduce reactivity, improve communication, and restore better sleep and routine.
Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals central. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness tools and existential questions are offered when they help someone make clearer choices about values and direction.
She has long experience with complicated situations such as co-morbidity, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and blended family concerns. Melody provides practical coping tools for people struggling with control issues, abandonment wounds, or codependency patterns. She will also talk frankly about burnout and compassion fatigue in helping professions.
Her approach is steady and down-to-earth. Clients work on skill-building in session and try out new ways of responding between meetings. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to set goals and a plan.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspective. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client decide what to work on next. This approach supports issues like relationship conflict, grief, and general life strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger that comes from automatic negative thinking.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, supplies concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can help when strong feelings lead to outbursts, resentment buildup, or relationship conflict.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is tracked and new priorities emerge.
Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when schedules require, and remove commute time. Ask about session lengths and how notes or between-session tasks will be handled so therapy fits into everyday life.
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Experience
22+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, anger, and related concerns such as grief and addictions.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on the person's goals and experience, combined with practical CBT and DBT strategies.
How much experience does she have?
She has 22 years of experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.