Melinda Labbe, LMHC, LPC

Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and trauma and abuse. Her approach aims to treat each person with respect and sensitivity.

She blends practical strategies from cognitive-behavioral work with client-centered listening. Sessions include clear goals, skill practice, and space to talk through painful experiences. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape present patterns.

Melinda has helped people cope with grief, parenting strain, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns such as addictions, intimacy issues, body image, and codependency. Her background includes supporting people after emotional and physical trauma, including sexual trauma and abuse.

Her manner is straightforward and nonjudgmental. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions. Clients can expect a mix of short-term skill building and deeper conversations about long-standing patterns.

To begin, she asks people to describe their goals and current struggles so sessions can be shaped to fit those needs. Melinda emphasizes collaboration and helps clients find small, achievable changes that add up over time.

How attachment, CBT, and EFT can work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation to identify repeating relationship dynamics and build new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and short skill practice between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on understanding emotions and strengthening emotional bonds by naming feelings and creating new interaction patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean using CBT tools for immediate symptom relief and attachment or EFT ideas when patterns in relationships need attention.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow quick check-ins when needed. It also supports steady practice of skills between appointments and lets therapists and clients focus on what matters most in the session.