About Melinda
Melinda Johnson is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and trauma. She uses a calm, practical style to help clients talk through grief, anger, depression, and addiction. Melinda aims to make the first step easier for anyone thinking about therapy.
She centers her work on body awareness and feelings as part of healing. Somatic approaches help people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn ways to respond differently.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered methods to help people name their values and build small, doable changes. Melinda brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions. That background includes supporting people through relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and complex mood issues like bipolar disorder and ADHD.
She also addresses attachment problems, communication breakdowns, and problems tied to family of origin. Her practice includes work on trauma-related symptoms such as post-traumatic stress and panic, and on situational challenges like coping with disasters, divorce, and financial stress. She supports people navigating non-monogamous relationships, forgiveness, and rebuilding self-worth after loss or shame.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with international clients by online formats. Melinda holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - in Texas under TX LPC 79401. If someone is looking for steady, practical support, she focuses on helping people build tools that fit daily life.
How Somatic and Values-Based Approaches Work Online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in their bodies and learn simple ways to ease tension and respond differently. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room, using listening and reflection to build trust and support self-directed change.The best approach often comes from trying methods together and seeing what fits. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means adjusting between body-focused practices, values work, and empathic listening as progress unfolds.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows body awareness work and face-to-face conversation, while phone or text can feel easier for quick check-ins or emotional processing. This flexibility helps people fit therapy into busy lives and continue consistent work from wherever they are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English