Melakee Nicholson, LPC
Somatic-informed counselor offering steady practical support
About Melakee
Melakee Nicholson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who combines body-aware work with talk therapy to help people find steadier footing. She uses somatic approaches alongside practical therapy methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges. She began counseling after her own search for help shaped her goals.
That personal experience guides her simple aim: to offer steady, clear support rather than quick fixes. Melakee believes clients are not problems to be solved and that therapy is a collaborative process to regain agency and calm.
Background and approach
Her training includes two masterlevel degrees in counseling and human services from Liberty University and a bachelors degree in environmental policy and biology. She holds an LPC license in Texas (TX LPC 76855) and brings about ten years of clinical experience to her work. In sessions she blends somatic attention with approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral techniques.
That means noticing how stress shows up in the body, learning small changes in thinking, and practicing ways to move toward what matters in life. Her style is straightforward and supportive, focused on skills people can use between sessions.
Melakee works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and body image concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career transitions. She also helps people manage chronic health issues and the emotional fallout of caregiving and serious illness.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions that can mean noticing breath, posture, muscle tension, and simple movement to help ground attention and reduce overwhelm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating, which can improve communication and intimacy.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the early work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences rather than assuming a single path. That means trying practical tools, noticing what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, maintain continuity during relocations, or use brief check-ins between longer meetings. Many people find the variety helps them practice skills in real time and stay connected to steady support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English