Melinda Labbe, LMHC, LPC
Florida · 20 years in practice
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH15035 · expires March 2027
- LPC, Oklahoma
- 3659 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1578766614 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Melinda
Melinda Labbe is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the fallout from trauma and loss. Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to meet people where they are.
Melinda draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centered ideas to guide conversations about feelings and connection.
Background and approach
She also uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches when helpful. Sessions tend to mix focused emotion work with concrete skills for coping and communication. Her background includes long-term psychotherapy and life coaching with individuals facing challenges such as addiction, grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and work stress.
She has experience addressing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and complex trauma like sexual or physical abuse. Melinda describes her approach as respectful and nonjudgmental. She avoids stigmatizing labels and works to tailor each plan to a person’s specific needs and goals.
Sessions emphasize safety in expression, clearer communication, and step-by-step skill building. People who reach out can expect a collaborative process. Melinda supports changes at a pace that fits each client and combines emotion-focused reflection with practical strategies to handle daily challenges.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melinda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melinda names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Emotion and Attachment Work Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions and how those feelings shape their relationships. It is useful for people who want to understand emotional patterns that lead to distance or conflict.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds and current connection needs affect behavior and closeness. This approach helps people make changes in how they seek support and respond to others.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and a respectful, nonjudgmental stance. It gives space for people to find their own solutions while feeling heard.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That process may mix emotion-focused exploration with skills-based practice so clients get both insight and tools.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging allows brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving even when plans change.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does this therapist help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and grief, parenting strain, and addiction-related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is warm and interactive, combining Emotionally-Focused Therapy, attachment-informed ideas, and client-centered listening to help people understand feelings and improve connection.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and life coach working with many long-term and short-term concerns.
What credentials and where does she practice?
She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in Florida.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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