Melissa Laneaux, LCSW

Melissa Laneaux is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Texas with 15 years of experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, anger, bipolar challenges, and major life changes. Sessions focus on building practical coping skills and clearer ways to handle difficult feelings.

Her style is straightforward and focused on what people can do day to day. Melissa uses evidence-based methods to teach skills for managing mood, reducing reactivity, and improving relationships. She aims to help people notice patterns, test small changes, and practice new responses until they feel more natural.

Melissa often blends client-centered listening with structured exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills training from dialectical behavior therapy. She also draws on emotionally-focused work to look at attachment and relationship patterns. Together these approaches are used to address issues such as anger, trauma, substance use, and low self-esteem.

In sessions she helps clients set clear goals, try concrete strategies, and track progress between meetings. That may include behavior experiments, emotion regulation skills, and communication practice. The emphasis is on usable tools that fit into a real-life routine.

People who prefer direct feedback and hands-on practice tend to do well with this approach. Melissa supports work on boundaries, coping when stress builds, and repairing disconnects in close relationships. She works in English and is based in Texas.

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