Melissa Robles , LPC

Melissa Robles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with five years of experience. She has provided care in schools, short-term inpatient mental health hospitals, clinics, and agency settings. Her work has covered a wide range of concerns including trauma, sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, parenting challenges, and life transitions.

Melissa uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, and grief. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused approaches to address symptoms and coping strategies. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at lasting patterns and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals.

Her background includes running both groups and individual sessions across varied clinical settings. That experience informs a flexible approach that mixes structured tools and reflective conversation. People who prefer clear, actionable steps alongside space to talk about deeper patterns often find this style helpful.

Melissa notes attention to multicultural issues and the ways life roles affect daily strain. She can assist with parenting-related concerns, body image and intimacy-related issues, postpartum and pregnancy challenges, and responses to sexual assault or abuse. Practical communication and commitment concerns are also common topics in her work.

Sessions begin with identifying immediate concerns and realistic steps forward. Melissa frames therapy as collaborative and aims to balance short-term problem solving with attention to longer-standing patterns that influence relationships and wellbeing.

How Melissa blends therapeutic approaches for online work