Melissa Laneaux

Melissa Laneaux is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She practices in Texas and focuses on practical coping tools that can be used in daily life. Melissa aims to make sessions clear and straightforward so people know what to expect.

Her approach emphasizes a steady, compassionate space where clients can talk through painful experiences. She uses methods that help people notice patterns, change unhelpful thoughts, and practice new behaviors. Sessions often include skills for regulating intense emotions and improving relationships.

Melissa works with people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood shifts, and difficulties with intimacy. She also supports those coping with life transitions, loneliness, body image concerns, and issues around guilt or shame. Her work includes attention to attachment and post-traumatic stress when these come up in therapy.

In sessions she blends client-centered conversation with structured techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. Emotionally-focused ideas guide work on closeness and connection when relationship or intimacy issues are a concern. The goal is to build skills that fit each person’s daily routines.

Melissa describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set concrete goals, try new ways of responding to stress, and track small changes over time. Prospective clients in Texas who speak English are encouraged to review session options and proceed if it feels like a good match.

How Melissa Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and support. It helps people feel heard and guides work around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melissa treats therapy as a collaboration and will help choose which methods to try based on a person's goals and daily life. She adjusts techniques so they fit what each person needs and can use between sessions.

Confirm the available session formats before booking so you know what options fit your schedule. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people practice new skills in the context of their day-to-day routines while keeping the focus on measurable steps and progress.