Melissa Laneaux

Melissa Laneaux is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She practices in Texas and focuses on practical coping skills people can use between sessions. Her approach is steady and compassionate, aimed at building emotional resilience and clearer day-to-day routines.

She works with people coping with trauma, relationship and intimacy-related struggles, mood disorders, and issues around self-esteem and body image. Melissa also supports those facing emptiness, shame, or isolation and helps people who are navigating life changes or young adult transitions. Her work includes attention to substance use, post-traumatic stress, and self-harm concerns when they arise.

Sessions combine listening with skill-building. Melissa uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's priorities and create a safe space to talk. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotional regulation and distress-tolerance skills.

Her meetings are practical and goal-oriented without rushing the process. She helps clients try small experiments between sessions, practice new behaviors, and track what works. The aim is steady improvement rather than quick fixes.

People who reach out can expect straightforward language and concrete tools. Melissa encourages collaboration - setting goals together and adjusting as needs change. To start, readers should confirm current session options before booking.

How Melissa’s approaches work in online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and pace. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, which helps people feel heard and more able to try new ways of coping.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood disorder symptoms because it teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.

Finding the right approach is often part of the work together. Melissa will talk with the client about goals and daily challenges and then recommend which methods to try first. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and practical.

Confirm current session options before booking to know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use skills learned in therapy in real-life settings between meetings.