Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Melakee works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She uses straightforward conversations to help people manage strong emotions, improve relationships, and handle life changes. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and issues related to parenting and identity.
She draws from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to build realistic coping steps. Sessions often include skills to notice difficult thoughts, shift unhelpful patterns, and clarify personal values.
Background and approach
Melakee emphasizes small, steady changes that fit day-to-day life. Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional responses. That perspective helps people understand why they react the way they do and how to create healthier ways of connecting.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concepts are used when stronger feelings and closeness are central to the concern. Her background includes two master’s degrees in counseling and human services and a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy and biology. She has practiced for 10 years, bringing both clinical training and practical problem solving to sessions.
The tone stays supportive and goal-oriented. Melakee works with adults on a range of issues including trauma, mood concerns, ADHD, career stress, and identity questions such as LGBT-related concerns. She aims to partner with each person to find useful tools, clearer direction, and more manageable days.
What Melakee works with
Everything Melakee lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Melakee's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melakee lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. Online sessions can focus on identifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which is useful for anger, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions this approach breaks problems into workable steps, teaches specific coping skills, and practices new behaviors between meetings to reduce anxiety and manage strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques, and adjust what they do based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit personality, needs, and the issues at hand.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let visual cues guide emotion-focused work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in real life.
Questions people ask about Melakee
What concerns does Melakee help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and family issues, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, self-esteem, career stress, ADHD, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and collaborative. She uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-based approaches, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to build coping skills and clarity.
How much experience does she have?
She has 10 years of clinical experience working with adults across a range of life and emotional concerns.
Where is she located and what are her credentials?
She practices in Texas and holds the LPC credential, listed as TX LPC.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How do fees and subscriptions work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.