- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Melody
Melody Libby is an LPC with 22 years of experience helping people navigate difficult moments. She focuses on clear, practical steps that reduce stress and improve daily functioning. Melody writes in straightforward language and aims to create a calm, steady space for conversations about hard things.
Her practice addresses anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Melody works with people facing career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes. Melody uses Client-Centered techniques to listen carefully and shape sessions around each person’s needs. She adds Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools help with emotion regulation and staying present during stress. Her background includes many years supporting clients through loss, chronic illness, caregiving strain, adoption and foster care topics, and blended family issues. She also addresses body image, codependency, and commitment or control concerns.
Melody pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences show up now. Sessions aim to build practical coping skills and clearer decision making. Melody offers coaching-style guidance when clients want concrete steps.
The overall goal is steadier days and more effective ways to handle life’s pressures.
What Melody works with
Everything Melody lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melody helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melody lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused 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 counseling styles translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. Online, that looks like conversations that follow a client's concerns while the therapist mirrors and clarifies what the client says to help them feel understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions CBT often includes worksheets, short skill practices between appointments, and focused goal setting that can be tracked over video or text.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness exercises that translate well to brief phone check-ins, live chat practice, or video demonstrations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visuals for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients send updates, try brief skills between sessions, and maintain momentum on busy days.
Questions people ask about Melody
What concerns does Melody address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and parenting-related concerns among others.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is person-centered and practical. She combines listening with tools from CBT, DBT, and mindfulness to build coping skills and reduce distress.
What is her professional background?
She has 22 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges and brings long-term practice to each session.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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